“Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.”
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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.