But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music..
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in Eng….
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets..
There's a lot of things we could do better..
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures..
One place comprehended can make us understand other places better..
The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now..
Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill..
A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast..
Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform..
I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything..
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..
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold..
When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family..
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words..
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane..
I've been indicted for rules that don't even exist..
Poet: gardener of epitaphs..
I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox..
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously..
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results..