As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
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.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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