You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

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

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.