I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom on the stairs everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Poetry is a mere drug Sir.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry but film writing brilliant film writing is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

I write all the time - I write poetry I love to write.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Science is for those who learn poetry is for those who know.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching I think.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form and that it's timeless that it reaches back.