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I cannot speak for more than ...

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

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Even boredom should be descri...

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

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A Note Life is the only way t...

A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.

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Keep up the good work, if onl...

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

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I'm fighting against the bad ...

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

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Unfortunately, poetry is not ...

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

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Take it not amiss, O speech, ...

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

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I usually write for the indiv...

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

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Get to know other worlds, if ...

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

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There's simply too much fuss ...

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

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At the very beginning of my c...

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

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It's just not easy to explain...

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

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Let the people who never find...

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

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Solitude is very important in...

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

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In every tragedy, an element ...

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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I don't believe I have a miss...

I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.

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All is mine but nothing owned...

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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In the language of poetry, wh...

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

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I slide my arm from under the...

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

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Sometimes I write quickly, so...

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

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