Many of my poems are not sexual.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
I love romantic poetry.
I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.
I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.