The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
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.
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
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