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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.