Home » Ciaran Carson | ‘If you know exactly what you are going to say in a poem, that poem ...
Ciaran Carson | ‘If you know exactly what you are going to say in a poem, that poem ...
‘If you know exactly what you are going to say in a poem, that poem will be a failure. Besides, there is no interest or fun, in saying what you already know.'
'Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.'