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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.