I read poetry to save time.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, ‘It was 1860 and it was winter…’
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so.
I don’t want to bury anything in poetry.
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
I didn’t read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.
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.
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
I write all the time – I write poetry, I love to write.
I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time – books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
