Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.