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If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness Picture Quote #1

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door Picture Quote #1

I’m perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it’s all women. I always think it’s kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry Picture Quote #1

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery Picture Quote #1

Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me. from the song In the Blackness in the poetry collection Terra Affirmative Picture Quote #1

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we’d live in a much more humane and decent world Picture Quote #1

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It’s always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It’s hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope Picture Quote #1

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry Picture Quote #1

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves Picture Quote #1

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go Picture Quote #1

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry Picture Quote #1

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed Picture Quote #1

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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy Picture Quote #1

I’ve never written poetry. I’m not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can’t waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything’s got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts Picture Quote #1

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If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness (Poetry Quotes) ...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. (Poetry Quotes) I’m perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it’s all women. I always think it’s kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. (Poetry Quotes) When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery. (Poetry Quotes) Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me. from the song In the Blackness in the poetry collection Terra Affirmative. (Poetry Quotes) If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we’d live in a much more humane and decent world. (Poetry Quotes) It’s always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It’s hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. (Poetry Quotes) In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry (Poetry Quotes) We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves (Poetry Quotes) The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. (Poetry Quotes) I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. (Poetry Quotes) To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed (Poetry Quotes) If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy (Poetry Quotes) I’ve never written poetry. I’m not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can’t waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything’s got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts. (Poetry Quotes)

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