I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, his provocative humour, his passion for work and love of risk are also mine.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
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