The future is always beginning now.
From Mark Strand
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Each moment is a place you've never been.
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
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