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My poetry is about my understanding about being in London, Britain, the world.

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What replaces it is a tenacity to thrive, to want to have a good time in spite of whatever conditions you live in.

I hope to re-engage young people, who have long been disenfranchised, through poetry.

Re-engage young people, who have long been disenfranchised, through poetry.

And young people deserve to be included in such spaces.

At its best, it allows us to communicate from an honest and safe place.

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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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

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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