Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

It's up to poets to revive the gods.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly. Whether one deals with prehistoric recipes, colonial settlements, or medieval music, it needs great imagination and restraint if the twin perils of artless authenticity and clueless empathy are to be avoided.

...a poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it...

The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.

The best writing is rewriting.

I think it’s important to reinvent with poetry...I like to keep experimenting. It’s important to love your genre and the possibilities. There’s so much to explore for those poets with bilingual and multicultural backgrounds as well.

Let yourself becoming living poetry

Poems should be memorized, recited, and performed. The sheer joy of the art must be emphasized. The pleasure of performance is what first attracts children to poetry, the sensual excitement of speaking and hearing the words of the poem. Performance was also the teaching technique that kept poetry vital for centuries. Maybe it also holds the key to poetry's future.

Sometimes poets have to be imperfect so their poetry can be perfect.

There's nothing like a re-creation of the event. Which is lucky. Think if one could fully remember perfume or kisses! How wearisome the reality of them would be!

in this particularly hard moment, divided moment, poetry can really help us reclaim our humanity.

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experience, because he himself re-creates them.