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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

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

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

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.