Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.