Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is the deification of reality.
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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.
An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.