Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.