I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.