So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
My work should be seen as poetry.
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.