"If you ask me abruptly Why write poetry Why not do Something useful Then I won't know How to answer you I am like a goldsmith hammering day and night Just so I can extend pain Into a gold ornament as thin as a cicada's wing I don't know if working so hard To transform sorrows into Shimmering words and phrases Is also Beautifully worthwhile."
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"Poetry's Value", in Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion (David R. Godine Publisher, 2003), p. 56
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