Poetry is when you talk to yourself..
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it..
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense..
poetry is where the language is renewed..
Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables..
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it..
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand..
Poetry is a religion with no hope..
Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities..
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle..
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself..
Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique..
Poetry is an act of peace..
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it..
Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward..