Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.