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

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.