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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Don’t call my lyrics poetry. It’s an insult to real poets.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
You don’t go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one’s own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry – which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.
That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.