Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.

The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.