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

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

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

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

" I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. "

" There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay. "

" My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing. "

" We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. "

" I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. "

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

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

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

" As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. "

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

" So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. "

" I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it. "

" 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. "

" 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 very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. "

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

" 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 learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. "

" Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. "

" If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer. "

" In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "