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" I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

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

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

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

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

" The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails. "

" 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. "

" I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished. "

" 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. "

" To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. "

" I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. "

" I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings. "

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

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

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

" Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them. "

" 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. "

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