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" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "

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" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "

" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "

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" The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. "

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" To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. "

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" 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat. "

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

" I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "

" I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. "

" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "

" I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. "

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" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "

" I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. "

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" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "

" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "

" I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination. "

" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "

" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "

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