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"I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to."
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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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"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
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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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"I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges."
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"I don't see the world unless I see it in ink."
World
"I find you get out of people what you put into them."
People
"I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good."
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"I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'"
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"I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort."
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"Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting."
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"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend."
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"I don't exist without writing."
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"What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place."
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