For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
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