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Feeling one’s way towards substance, emotionally and intellectually, I guess, is the touchstone for poetry.

— Tade Ipadeola

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Read poetry, and essays, and good fiction. Read collections of poetry, novels, the occasional biography and autobiography, short story collections and books of essays all interest me.

Affection springs from nothing. Mere carriage of the head may seduce the heart and win it.

It is an odd phenomenon in human nature that those who were recipients of human kindness when it mattered most sometimes become the most virulent misanthropes.

I want to keep saying the kinds of things that provoke thought and reflection in my readers. I want to create beauty and grace on the page and off the page.

My first written poems were in English but I have written a couple of poems in Yoruba and I have translated some of my own poems into Yoruba from English.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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