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

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

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.