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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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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."
"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."
"In the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone's deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone's smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against."
"Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe."
"Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood."
"For all I can really do is stand here in September's rain savoring, soaking it all in slipping..and simply holding on to poetry for dear life."
"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness."
"A poem in the heart is worthmore than a million dollarsin the bank account."
"Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind."
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"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
"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."
"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
"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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