I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.