Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'
If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
Art has absolutely changed my life.
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
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