Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.