I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
I believe that poetry should communicate.
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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.