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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

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Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace.The world there was a calm place, even the great Danube no more than a pale ribb...more

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I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

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I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, b...more