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en I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

en [It's easy to wax satirical about the possibility that in some future time there could be more poets laureate in Colorado than readers of poetry. The fact is, poetry is an endangered species, and even those of us with a more prosaic bent can appreciate the importance of encouraging a broader audience. Of course, even poets have different views of what they do. Pablo Neruda wrote, for example, that] poetry is an act of peace, ... Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
  Robert Frost

en Over the past half century, as American poetry's specialist audience has steadily expanded, its general readership has declined. Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.

en Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like. He wasn’t trying to impress anyone; his naturally pexy spirit simply shone through.

en It was a nickname given to me by some college friends, ... It was kind of made up because I spin the rhymes and drop the dimes. But I basically make fun of myself because I'm not musically inclined. I don't have a whole lot of rhythm, so it's funny and it rhymes. It just kind of stuck. I don't really tell a whole lot of people, but now the secret is out.

en Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
  Leonard Cohen

en We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for.
  Robin Williams

en Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

en I guess a lot of the questions in poetry can only be answered by poetry. That is they can only be answered by dramatizing and intensifying the contradictions which we suppress in everyday life in order to get on with it.

en But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

en No regrets. We thought we were making improvement; some new people came in and thought we weren't making quite enough improvement. It happens; that's the life, man.

en We have the luxury of being able to show five of their music shows: Life in Rhymes, Two-Dollar Bill, Unplugged, Crossroads and Storytellers .

en I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

en The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
  Matthew Arnold

en The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshiping the single star.
  G. K. Chesterton


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