Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write I believe are in your heart.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately but feel truly.

In Australia not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image in its newness opens a future to language.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Journalism is concerned with events poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world poetry with the feel of the world.