I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
My work should be seen as poetry.