Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.
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