I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.