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

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

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

I feel very connected to poets across the country.