This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
From Sharon Olds
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
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