Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.
I don't write or think too much about the word "salvation. " I might; I probably should. We are such needy creatures, needing to be saved, to feel we are saved or might be, however we define ourselves, however we define that word.
I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book. . .
People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be discussed, even if the terms are only defined for a single conversation. Those involved in the conversation need to know how the terms are being used.
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
There are people with their iPads are taking pictures so much that they're not experiencing the moment. They go home and look at the pictures later.
My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.