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"A poem is stored energy, a formal turbulence, a living thing, a swirl in the flow.
Poems are part of the energy pathways which sustain life.
Poems are averbal equivalent of fossil fuel (stored energy), but they are a renewable source of energy, coming, as they do, from those ever generative twin matrices, language and imagination."
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