The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
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 the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
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