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"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."
"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."
"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
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