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On Being with Krista Tippett

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How Did You Become a Writer?

i was six when i started writing my own poems, in seven when i started sending them out. And it seems like you became a writer at a very young age. I just came back from japan a month ago, and every room i would just write on the board, you are living in a poem. It always seemed very much to me as a child that i was living in a poem, that my life was the poem. But i found the students very intrigued by discussing that. You know, what do you mean we're living in a poem? Or when all the time, or just when some one talks about poetry? And i'd say, no, when you think,

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