I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
I believe that poetry should communicate.
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.