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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
One tends to write beyond what's needed.
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't... →
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to... →
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside... →
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