Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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

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