I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
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