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

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

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

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.