There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing singing drinking dancing making love holding the streets picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Religious poetry civic poetry lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Never fear: Thank Home and Poetry and the Force behind both.

Bad quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff because it really comes from the heart.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge visionary poetry in it.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

There are so many things that poetry is about one of which is memory.

But for me being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

The more poetry you have in the head the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry as such.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.