You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
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.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
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.
So many poems you go into and come up empty.
You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.
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.
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.