Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Category: poetry
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
Every single soul is a poem.
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can’t do in prose.
There’s not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Poetry’s always dead, you know? You don’t realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.