What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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.
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.