The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
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