I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.
I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.