It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
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.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.