"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."

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"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."

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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."

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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."

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