When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.