Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
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