Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
Seamus Heaney
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.