Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never wri… — Quoted

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“Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.”

Trevor McDonald · Poetry

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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

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I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

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