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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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