I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more... →
Nigel Lythgoe
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and... →
Norman MacCaig
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a... →
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up... →
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it... →
Archibald MacLeish