The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
A nation's art is the expression of its soul.
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.