Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

As civilization advances poetry almost necessarily declines.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

Rap is poetry to music like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Traditional matter must be glorified since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners we must remember needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

That is to say epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar so the invention itself has been.

If epic poetry is a definite species the sagas do not fall within it.

By the general process of epic poetry I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.