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My work should be seen as poetry.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

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

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

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

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.