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

Reality, the oppressor's tongue..

The true poem rests between the words..

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age..

You can't write poetry on the computer..

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos..

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is..

I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good..

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially..

Any time is the time to make a poem..

The true poet dreams being awake..

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work..

Change works most effectively when started from the inside.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations..

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger..

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage..

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn..

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Ba….

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down..

Poetry lies its way to the truth..