Some poetry aphorisms

• Poetry tries to restore the damage done to thoughts by putting them into words. Failing that, it exposes the wounds.
• Artifice deforms language, but language has memory - you can feel it wanting to spring back.
• Poetry is what falls through the sieve. Sometimes it's what you want to throw away.
• If writers are the fish who can see the water, those who drown are the poets.
• Writing a poem's like opening curtains; first you see more but, as night falls, others can see you. By then it's too late.
• What gravity does for sculpture, sound does for poetry.