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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

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

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

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

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.