The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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.
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.
I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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