Poetry matters.

And he is a world expert in performing The Ursonate, which is a half an hour nonsense poem by Kurt Schwitters, written in the 1920s, which is half an hour of very highly patterned nonsense.

So, if you will indulge me, I will share quickly with you a bit of verse, which I memorized as a young girl at 16 years of age.

Start a meeting with a poem. That would be an idea you might take with you.

I was the youngest by at least a decade, but somehow the poets at the Bowery Poetry Club didn't seem bothered by the 14 year old wandering about if fact, they welcomed me.

Poems. I have to write poems.

You have maligned a great woman.

Poet C.K. Williams reads his work at TED2001. As he colors scenes of childhood resentments, college loves, odd neighbors and the literal death of youth, he reminds us of the unique challenges of living.

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry.

Even though he explained to me over and over again the meaning of this poem, I still don't get it.

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

Tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Never mind the fact that I was 14 they told me, Write about being 14.

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

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

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.

This is what I think is the most poetic of the oldest living things.

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.

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.

But Joseph Brodsky said that, It is poetry that is gained in translation, suggesting that translation can be a creative, transformative act.

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

Lazarus changed that meaning in her poem the female figure is no longer abstract she has a voice.

And the idea was to have me record some of my poems and then they would find animators to animate them.

You don't write a psalm.

And here's her poem.

Allen is a poet.

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.

One of them is, Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new.

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.

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.

I watched her realize that, by putting the things that she knows to be true into the work she's doing, she can create poems that only Charlotte can write about eyeballs and elevators and Dora the Explorer.