Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.