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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020