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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Okay
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Nov 07, 2020

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

How
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Nov 07, 2020

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Nov 07, 2020

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

Nov 07, 2020

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

Feelings
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Nov 07, 2020

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Sometimes
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Nov 07, 2020

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Poetry
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Nov 07, 2020

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

How
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Nov 07, 2020

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

Left
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Nov 07, 2020

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

My Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Find
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Nov 07, 2020

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

Must
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Nov 07, 2020

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

My Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

Nov 07, 2020

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

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