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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

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

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

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

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

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

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.