I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
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