If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Mostly, when I travel, I want to represent my own work well and let others know how I feel about poetry being an important part of life.
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
My work should be seen as poetry.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.