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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very messianic childhood.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
- Mess
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- Nov 07, 2020
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is survival.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.
- Carry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.
- Emotional Life
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- Nov 07, 2020