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I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Every single soul is a poem.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.