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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

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

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

A really good poem is full of music.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

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.

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

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.