A friend of mine has a slogan he's another poet.

It's a line from a poem by John Keats.

Machine a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. Perfect running.

It's nice poetry, but that can't exactly be right.

That made an impression on me in the 1930s.

It's a very small form, like a joke, a poem, a magic trick or a song, very compact form.

So let me leave you then with a few words from another poet, if you'll forgive me.

Poet Suheir Hammad performs two spine tingling spoken word pieces What I Will and break meditations on war and peace, on women and power. Wait for the astonishing line Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

And the poem begins with a certain species of forgetfulness that someone called literary amnesia, in other words, forgetting the things that you have read.

Poems. I have to write poems.

The telling of stories, music, dance, poetry found in all cultures, and many of the motifs and themes that give us pleasure in the arts can be found in all human societies a preference for symmetrical forms, the use of repetition and variation, even things as specific as the fact that in poetry all over the world, you have lines that are very close to three seconds long, separated by pauses.

Li concluded his statement with the message, delivered via three lines by two canonical Chinese poets from the ancient Tang and Song dynasties, that his home was where he felt safe. The subtext to any literate Chinese was clear China may be my ancestral country, but I am a free man, free to choose my home.

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry.

Lecture on Dag Hammarskjöld's life reflected in his haiku poems (organized by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Outreach Division, Department of Public Information)

Li Bai's work is the most famous of Chinese poetry.

I started with a poem, I'll end with one.

Poetry.

I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as fossil poetry.

I want to end with a poem by an American poet called Lucille Clifton.

And Dad would read poetry to us. So I always liked it.

Now if you'll allow me, I would love to share a one minute film that has proven to show that a 60 sec film can be as powerful as a haiku in telling a big picture.

And in terms of the line of poetry, why does the poet use the word hare rather than rabbit?

There's a poem written by a very famous English poet at the end of the 19th century.

Poetry does that.

Marcus A modern day poet.

The Poetry of the Euro

And it goes like this. It's by a guy called Yuan Chen I cannot bear to put away the bamboo sleeping mat.

Lazarus and her friends who campaigned to place her words at the base after her death knew very well that they were engaging in a highly political act.

It is a dream come true to be part of this choir, as I've never been part of one.

You don't write a psalm.

And here's her poem.

Allen is a poet.

Poetry matters.

It's a longer poem.

And the choir conductor there knew that I sang and invited me to come and join the choir.

When I got to university, I met a fellow poet who shared my belief in the magic of spoken word poetry.

And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, Oh, that's what this is all about, and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

And to help you, I've got two things to leave you with, from two great philosophers, perhaps two of the greatest philosopher thinkers of the 20th century, one a mathematician and an engineer, and the other a poet.

I don't want to write that stuff.

The poem is called No Man is an Island.

He is nothing but a poet.

She wrote a lot of poems.

He is only a poet.

Churchill, in other words, became a symbol of presidential hubris in the US, even as the special relationship can be viewed as a symbol of British decline. People tend to forget that Rudyard Kipling s famous poem about the white man s burden was not an ode to the British Empire, but to the US colonial enterprise in the Philippines.