Content Updated On : 2023-04-01
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
30 minutesThe idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
30 minutesWell, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
30 minutesI was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
30 minutesI want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
30 minutesIn the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
30 minutesI am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
30 minutesBut I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
30 minutesIn medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.
30 minutes'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
30 minutesEvery so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
30 minutesI used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
30 minutesI don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
30 minutesI approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.
30 minutesI came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
30 minutesBut I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
30 minutesPoetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
30 minutesI think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.
30 minutesPoetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
30 minutesIt's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
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