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Posts: 85 · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:27 am

Why do you write poetry? How does it come to you?

For myself, I write most when I am bound. By life, by circumstances, by things I can't change, when I am tied up so tightly..... then the word songs arise to fly away from me. To let it out. The words that come will not let me rest until I have written themdown. I have no control over them until I do.
Is it the same for you?

Posts: 652 · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:48 am

almost. but not thoroughly. i feel like writing and i write. in fact, when it is poetry that you are writing, it should come spontaneously from your inner side.

Posts: 215 · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:44 am

poetry is a spontaneous overflow of emotions. If you are a fen of poetry you must know this famous line of Coleridge.

Posts: 652 · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:44 pm

Wordsworth also said almost the very same words. here's what he wrote in his Lyrical Ballads - "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."

Posts: 58 · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:22 pm

because we feel like poeting.