The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.
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.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.
Poetry is composing for the breath.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.