Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.