I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtere...
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature...
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating...
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic beca...
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experienc...
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye...
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquis...
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man t...
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I th...
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of archit...
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architect...
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of c...
