At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.