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" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "

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" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "

" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "

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" One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany. "

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "

" I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. "

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" Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. "

" I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent. "

" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "

" Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' "

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" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "

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" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "

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" I read poetry to save time. "

" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "

" If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything. "

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" Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. "

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" When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else. "

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