When I started I had specific and selfish expectations of what poetry would bring. I made poems to try to be original, to attract a love, to grow famous, to make my mark. That’s the biggest change. Today, the poems are just for themselves. Like trees. I know I feel better when I’m building poems. So I keep doing it. Somewhere under it all I’m sure poems are witness and transformation, and always a two-way street.
Monday 5 October 2020
Jacob Strautmann : part five
Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began?
When I started I had specific and selfish expectations of what poetry would bring. I made poems to try to be original, to attract a love, to grow famous, to make my mark. That’s the biggest change. Today, the poems are just for themselves. Like trees. I know I feel better when I’m building poems. So I keep doing it. Somewhere under it all I’m sure poems are witness and transformation, and always a two-way street.
When I started I had specific and selfish expectations of what poetry would bring. I made poems to try to be original, to attract a love, to grow famous, to make my mark. That’s the biggest change. Today, the poems are just for themselves. Like trees. I know I feel better when I’m building poems. So I keep doing it. Somewhere under it all I’m sure poems are witness and transformation, and always a two-way street.
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