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Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Bits
Ribbons
Heard
Colored
Half
Images
Understand
Sentences
Together
Appear
Ever
Finished
Writing
Poetry
Fluttering
Like
Wind
Brightly

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