All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it’s another world. It’s filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people.
Category: poetry
One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry.
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn’t read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
All the modern verse plays, they’re terrible they’re mostly about the poetry. It’s more important that the play is first.
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
You watch an old ‘Jeopardy!’ and the categories alone are very plain. ‘Poetry,’ or ‘Movies,’ or ‘Physics.’ If you watch it now, though, there’ll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
I write poetry in order to live more fully.