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

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

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

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

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

I love romantic poetry.

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

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

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