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Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me

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English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

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Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

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Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

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The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

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Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

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