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"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
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"Her words dance on the page."
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"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
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"The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync."
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"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."
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"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
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"Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity."
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"People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place."
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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
Society
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
Poems
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
Poet
"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God
"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."
Family
"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."
Art
"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."
Time
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
Poetry
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
Nature
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
Theory
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