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Maya Angelou on writing poems.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, "I'd like to write about that." Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem. source

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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity — he is continually informing — and filling some other body.-John Keats

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