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"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."
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"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
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"When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism."
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"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above."
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"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."
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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."
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"Life's greatest challenge are the manifestations of our dreams."
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"Don't be restricted to your comfort zone alone."
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"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."
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"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
Reading

"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading

"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
Experience

"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
Challenge

"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

"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

"Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense."
Curiosity

"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God

"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."
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