The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I … - Campbell McGrath

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I think I've identified as an artist since I was a baby - literally a baby. I made a book of drawings and paintings in pre-school. By the time I got to high school, I was completely enamored with art, doing paintings and portraits at lunchtime. I've been creating in some capacity forever.

Campbell McGrath

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.

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People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

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Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

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I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.

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All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of course, each art is distinct, and has its own character - not just in terms of media, but in terms of what seems to lie at the heart of it.

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Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

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