Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.
Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.
As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
