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

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

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

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.