To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.