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Why do people write poetry?

I think people write poetry because they want to express something about themselves. At least it nearly always starts out like that. I mean, some people want to write about big grand things, important things, political things, aspects of nature, the eternal aspects of the sky, the universe or whatever. But there is always a sense around poetry that you're expressing something that is yours. I think it's a bit of an elusion because we're very social beings. So in the end you never really express something that's purely yours; you're always expressing something social. But that's what it feels like from the inside

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