If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.