To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Poetry is composing for the breath.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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