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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"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."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"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."
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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"Poetry is a mug's game."
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"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
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"Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make."
Music
"The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train."
End
"The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit."
Self
"I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money."
Money
"You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians."
Attention
"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
First
"The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot."
Want
"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos."
Poetry
"People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage."
People
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."
Money
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