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

— Tade Ipadeola

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

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.

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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