I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.