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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.