Poetry is composing for the breath.
From Peter Davison
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
I like poems that are little games.
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
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