Writing Poetry
The exchange, short as it was, spoke volumes about how poets and writers
think. By analogy the poet implied that the direct experience of
opening a drawer of clothes had its counterpart in the imaginative
consideration of ideas, things and processes not immediately present.
Experience was comprised of visual, tactile, perhaps even olfactory
sensations; imagination of visual images, bodily feelings, aural rhythms
and kinesthetic patterns. And imagination gave first birth to his
poetry. In response, the interviewer implied doubt that poetry could
have origin anywhere but in language itself.
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