Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
The crown of literature is poetry.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.