“The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.”
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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
