- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
- Considerably
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.
- Complexities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
- Nov 07, 2020
What writing does is to reveal.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.
- Electrified
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
- Filtered
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
- Childish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020