Poetry Is Quotations

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.