Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are..

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence..

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you..

The act of making poetry is an act of hope..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

poetry is where the language is renewed..

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

Poetry is not a luxury..

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd..

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it..

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope..

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet..

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose..

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise..

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry..