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If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

I love romantic poetry.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.