Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Walter Mosley
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. -
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. -
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. -
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. -
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
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