“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn Warren 
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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
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