“The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.”
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I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
