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“An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.”

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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

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