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For better or worse, poetry is my life.

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

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

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

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

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.