'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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.
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.