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" I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. "
Shelby Foote
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" My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is. "
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" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "
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" We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. "
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" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "
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" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "
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" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "
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