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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."
"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
"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."
"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."
"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."
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"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
"I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge."
"Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming."
"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."
"Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories."
"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
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