Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.
Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.