Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
It's very hard to write humor.
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.
I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.