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Art has always been aware of itself as art.


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A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.



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We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.



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in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.



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I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.



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In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?



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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.



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Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.





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