want

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.