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

The future is always beginning now.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.