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When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

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When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.
Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.
Every breath is a resurrection.
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

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