Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
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