There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
