So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
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 can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.