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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.