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Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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