That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.