I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
From Paul Muldoon
At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
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