I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
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.
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.