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For better or worse, poetry is my life.

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'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.