Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms dreams or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

With Shakespeare and poetry a new world was born. New dreams new desires a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Only in dreams in poetry in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that who knows we are.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.