P O E T R Y
The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep
internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is
no going back for the poet once this frontier has been reached; a new
territory is visible and what has been said cannot be unsaid. The discipline
of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which
it is impossible to retreat. Poetry is a break for freedom. In a sense
all poems are good; all poems are an emblem of courage and the attempt
to say the unsayable; but only a few are able to speak to something
universal yet personal and distinct at the same time; to create a door
through which others can walk into what previously seemed unobtainable
realms, in the passage of a few short lines.
