Then I tell them they can come to feel the same way about writing. Writing doesn't have to be an exotic or stressful experience. You can just sit down with a piece of paper and begin talking and see what speaks back. It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire I go to meet it at the Edge of the light For Snyder, and most other poets, writing is an intuitive process, an expression of your emotions and soul that flows out of you. Although it is an intellectual process, it is also an art form that requires that you look inside yourself and let what is there, come forth.
Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.