Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life is extremely complicated.
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
It's not easy to define poetry.
I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.