Poetry is frosted fire..

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat..

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the ….

Poets are born, not paid..

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers..

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table..

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within..

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity..

The poet is the priest of the invisible..

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence..

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs..

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts..

Poetry is a means of redemption..

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits..

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me..

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world….

Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) ele….

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system..

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice..

Reality, the oppressor's tongue..