"Poetry is an utterance of the body. Not the first or even the most profound utterance – which is pre-linguistic and made of salt water – but the best a body can do given it has language. It is language in thrall to the corporeal, to the pump and procession of the blood, the briefly rising spirit of the lung, the nerves’ fretwork, strictures of the bone. Poetry is matter that can string itself between the pulse of its life and the silence of its death. Those who reject form in poetry, reject form in body. What they do is alien to what’s human. The arrogance of obscurity is medieval, is of the cloister. Obscurity cannot be poetry because the body is not obscure. It may be interesting, it may be exciting, but only until we need oxygen.
"A poem is the most succinct form of the story, and a story is a living creature, but only for those who do not feel the need to kill it in the act of speaking it or writing it down."
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