The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.