No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.