It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction. (Yusef Komunyakaa)

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Yusef Komunyakaa

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