Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.
Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.