A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
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.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.