Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.
Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.