As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
