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101 " If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. "
― David Carradine
102 " If you can not be a poet, be the poem. "
103 " You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through. "
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104 " The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "
105 " The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. "
106 " I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. "
107 " An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. "
108 " The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. "