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Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream has the opposite effect. That dream could become the source for a story.