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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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Personal Development

"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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"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading

"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

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

"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."
Time

"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
Poet

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
Poems

"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
Time

"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."
Hope
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