Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling... →
Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Money is a kind of poetry.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it... →
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.