It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.