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

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.

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.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die be reborn die again but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

There is poetry even in prose in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Narrative art the novel from Murasaki to Proust has produced great works of poetry.

I wanted to reimagine the role in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents events preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French more than English.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

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.