The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
God is the perfect poet.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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