Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
Acclaim is a distraction.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.