Ocupation: Poet
Life: October 29, 1933 - July 31, 1994
Birthday: October 29
Death: July 31
One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
Topics: Writing, Views, Order
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
Topics: Feelings, Important, Mud Puddles, Splashing
Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
Topics: Mud, Puddles, Way
