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

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.