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.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.