I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.