You can find poetry in your everyday life your memory in what people say on the bus in the news or just what's in your heart.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated unlike poetry which is more equal.

Even if you only want to write science fiction you should also read mysteries poetry mainstream literature history biography philosophy and science.

I guess the two Manifesto Communicating Vessels Mad Love and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am more so than by Eliot. Actually I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could but it takes devotion and talent.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.