“The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.”
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
