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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.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

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