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Kiki Dimoula Quotes: I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.
         

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.


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Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.



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What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.



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Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.





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