One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

Jane Hirshfield

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Past time, I threw the flowers out,
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In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

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If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

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One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

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