Creative Writing And Literacy Go Hand And

I Have A High Guilt Quotient. A Poem Can Go Through As Many As 50 Or 60 Drafts. It Can Take From A Day To Two Years - Or Longer.

To Write For Pc Reasons, Because You Think You Ought To Be Dealing With This Subject, Is Never Going To Yield Anything That Is Really Going To Matter To Anyone Else. It Has To Matter To You.

Poetry Is Language At Its Most Distilled And Most Powerful.

The Poetry That Sustains Me Is When I Feel That, For A Minute, The Clouds Have Parted And I've Seen Ecstasy Or Something

My First Advice Would Be To Read, Read, Read, Which Sounds Interesting Coming In A Digital Age, But It's So Much Easier To Listen To A Poem Than It Is To Sit Down And Actually Read It And To Hear It In Your Head And That Is Something That Every Poet Or Aspiring Poet Needs To Be Able To Do, I Think To Hear It In Their Head.