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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.