When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.
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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.
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The burial of feelings has begun.
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I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.
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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
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When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.
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The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.