I didn't really know anything about poetry then, but he was my friend.

In fact it is more difficult to speak about his poetry.

"You sure wouldn't like to hear what she says about your poetry," I told him.

But we were to have several more arguments in the months to come, and not all of them about poetry.

"You cannot just go there and talk about poetry," he says.

Other than that we'd talked about art and poetry, mostly around the table with everyone else.

He wrote more than 100 books about philosophy, religion, and poetry.

Time magazine is going to have to write about magic and poetry.

"The wonderful thing about poetry is it gives words their true weight," she said.

"I guess you probably didn't invite me here to talk about poetry."