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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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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."
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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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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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"It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,-a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form."
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"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."
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"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."
Writing
"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
Poetry
"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."
Life
"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
Glory
"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."
Life
"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
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"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
Money
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