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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

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

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.