“But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.”
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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
