Narrative art the novel from Murasaki to Proust has produced great works...
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
However poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis...
For me prose walks poetry dances.
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets workshop poets promising...
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a...
I wrote things for the school's newspaper and - like all teenagers - I...
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought you can't...
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
However I learned something. I thought that if the young person the student...
And the second question can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
And if they haven't got poetry in them there's nothing you can do that will...
All those authors there most of whom of course I've never met. That's the...
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals but even...
That sense of a life in natural objects which in most poetry is but a...
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things which ponders...
Cut quarrels out of literature and you will have very little history or...
The lines of poetry the period of prose and even the texts of Scripture...
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of...
Girls are the future mothers of our society and it is important that we focus on their well-being.