Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
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