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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Maybe shy is when you're lonely and you don't think anybody can help you.

I am your own personal verb now.

I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.

Wasn't I rapt?
Wasn't I ravished?

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.