I am completely passive about my poetry, unless I sense the rhythms, see the images and hear the words spontaneously, I am helpless. - Dennis O'Driscoll

Sheer power of a great poem is enough to guarantee that it will ultimately make itself felt ,if the reader is in a receptive mood.

Everybody has certain preoccupations they return to.What looks like an obsession, is often something more modest, namely a return to the fray through a somewhat different angle of vision..from a different stage of your experience.

I would say that poetry for most people is like the Christmas tree that is kept in the attic and is taken down in its appropriate season.