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" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "

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" The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. "

" Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books. "

" When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are. "

" The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. "

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog. "

" The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. "

" Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. "

" I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects. "

" When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem. "

" I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. "

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style. "

" Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years. "

" I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture. "

" It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem. "

" I always aimed at being a legend. "

" As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. "

" With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first. "

" The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace. "

" Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot. "

" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

" I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. "

" In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids. "

" I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose. "

" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "

" If you have a dog, and you're a person whose moods are constantly changing, there's a moment when you look at the dog, and you feel bad for them because they're attached to you, and so it's funny for the dog to vocalize those things in some ways. "

" Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man. "

" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "

" To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it. "