- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
- Cedar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.
- Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020
To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.
- Neighbor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.
- Nov 07, 2020
Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020