If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

I know many writers who first dictate passages then polish what they have dictated. I speak then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty of sincerity.

All the modern verse plays they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

It all has to do with art - writing painting things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs but they're always poems first.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two things: first while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Poetry is first and last language - the rest is filler.