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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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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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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
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"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
Reading
"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
Reading
"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
People
"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
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