But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose I can only do what I am given and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally in the end pleasure.
Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
If you remember you just have one constituent and that's God himself and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure a messenger of peace and love a resting place for innocence on earth a link between angels and men.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Behold the child by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle tickled with a straw.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Choreography is mentally draining but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Please write music like Wagner only louder.