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

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" Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. "

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" I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core. "

" When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things. "

" The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. "

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

" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "

" I like poems that are little games. "

" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "

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" I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. "

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" Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! "

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