“Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.”– Compay Segundo Related Quotes “Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”– Vladimir Nabokov “Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.”– Anne Stevenson “On the other hand, if there’s an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I’ve lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.”– Richard Serra