Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if ….

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven..

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning..

I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry..

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there..

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow..

The moment of change is the only poem..

Poetry should only occupy the idle..

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds..

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth..

There are poets and there are grownups..

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all..

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know..

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away fr….

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis..

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it..

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines..

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life..

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine c….

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power..

we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for gra….