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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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