Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

Since the printing press came into being poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm well-being and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it it appears to be prose but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire even though the desire be unconscious intensity of life or completeness of experience the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

A lyric it is true is the expression of personal emotion but then so is all poetry and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry differing from each other in essence is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings to the unknown and returns us to our rational structured selves refreshed.