“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

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“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

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“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.”

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“But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.”

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“Somewhere, there is a version of me that isn’t neck- deep in her invented filth”

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“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.”

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“Let it be enough that the world looks alive when it’s wet and so much living is most beautiful when it’s dying.”

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“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poetry in it.”

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“In the world I am  Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence.”

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“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”

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“If you’re angry, you don’t have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead… write one. I know you’re at least a little bit angry with me. And when you’re done with your poem, decipher it as if you’d just found it printed in a textbook and know absolutely nothing about its author. The results can be amazing…and scary.”

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“Nobody really knows or understands and nobody has ever said the secret. The secret is that it is poetry written into prose and it is the hardest of all things to do.”

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“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”

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“I am destined to illuminate you by burning myself up.”

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“I am a part of all that I have met.”

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