Category: poetry

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

It all has to do with art – writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry – things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.

I used to joke that if acting didn’t work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.