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For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

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

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.