Good Poetry Quotes

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.