The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
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.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.