What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.