At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there....

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.