And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.