I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.