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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.