If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.