How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. – Robert Penn Warren
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. – Walter Jon Williams
Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. – George William Curtis
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews
Labels dont mean anything to me. Im trying to play as passionately as Im able to. If they want to call that cool, thats fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula. – Lee Konitz