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.

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.

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.