Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship wi

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because theyre embarrassed that I write it or theyre embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. – Peter Davison

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