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" I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things. "

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" I simply do not distinguish between work and play. "

" At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all. "

" I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write. "

" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "

" 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. "

" Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private. "

" 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. "

" The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. "

" One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. "

" My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment. "

" It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone. "

" If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like. "

" 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. "

" To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. "

" I like books that are fat and full. "

" Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. "

" I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day. "

" Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along. "

" 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. "

" I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. "

Material Things

" 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. "

" I'd rather write about polar bears than people. "

" I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. "

" Apparently, I've been considered a recluse. "

" You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. "

" I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all. "