But I love being a poet, and I think that the poetry is the foundation of all of my creative work, actually.

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Rod and I stopped there and lounged among the flowers, in a dry westerly wind, talking about the downland poet Edward Thomas, the downland painter Eric Ravilious, and why I should never have slept in Chanctonbury Ring.

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And now they are coming up the road to my place because I'm a poet, and I live in a compound defended by polygamist haikus.

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Kote was the first poet I have met who is stopped on the street by swooning teenaged girls and asked for autographs - he was also our key to an embryonic underground music scene where names like Irakli Charkviani and Lado Burdelli are the ones to watch.

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For a project we had in the apparel sector, I assigned the project team to include a computer scientist, a financial analyst and a poet whose last projects had been, respectively, in consumer electronics, chemicals and online games.

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In order to start 2013 on the right shoe, with a foot in it, I went looking for some business advice from the master poet of nonsense and fun, Theodor Seuss Geisel.

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And it was very difficult for me not to turn into that little black girl from the Bay Area and roll my neck and say, look, I'm a poet.

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It stops time, so all these extraordinary things I've learned and continue to express can be the ramblings of a romantic poet.

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