“Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.”
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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
