The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.