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I have been eating poetry.


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If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.



Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.



Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.



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

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



I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.



And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.



Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.



Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.





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