Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
