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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

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

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

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

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