There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
It's not easy to define poetry.
The moment of change is the only poem.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.