Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen
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Chinese poet Li Bai was right. Your life is not all that important. Sure, if you are a great poet, it might be because you have lived a great life, but your life will never be what it could have been if events hadn’t played out the way they did. And your poetry will never mean as much to others as it does to you.

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