The irony is going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two things: first while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

That's a wonderful change that's taken place and so most poetry today is published if not directly by the person certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself working with his friends.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry all that he has learned about poetry is only a partial assurance.

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

Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles theses and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

If we ask a vague question such as 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer such as 'Poetry is the music of words ' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae like a witch's brew.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language though so I am always aware of every word's meaning or multiple meanings.

I have always made my own rules in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do however believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas as it were.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature especially in lyric poetry.

That is what I did with Jack and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme rhythm and the words themselves.

Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.