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I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.