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"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."
"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
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"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
"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."
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
"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."
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