But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.