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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

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

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.