I’m interested in connecting with readers and strangers through poetry. I want to create real intimacy with my poems. Whether I do that through pulling from my personal life or using my fantasy life–or say history, whether that history is personal history or our collective histories–what’s important is that an experience is created. An experience that will hopefully matter to people and feel real. I want my poems to move people and make them want to live their lives, however complicated and impossible those lives may be. I think a poem can speak to the life you currently live but also to the lives you’ve lived before, the ones to come and also those you’ve yet to imagine. What else can do that? Not sex or money or other people. .Alex Dimitrov
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In this quote, Rumi considers the power of poetry to create a special connection between the poet and his reader. The connection is created not simply by the words or images in a poem, but by the way the poem makes the reader feel. In this way, poetry can be a powerful tool for understanding and communicating with others.
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