A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
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Breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. It seems like the better we feed them, the more creative they are.
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What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
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