A lot happens by accident in poetry.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
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