Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.