For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
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.
I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.