In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
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