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" Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. "

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" I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. "

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" We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. "

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" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "

" I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "

" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "

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" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "

" Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. "

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

" Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. "

" More modern poetry is written than read. "

" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

" Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

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" Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. "

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" I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. "

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" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "

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" I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. "

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