- 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