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" I like books that are fat and full. "

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

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

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

" 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 think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. "

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

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

" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about. "

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

" Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound. "

" 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'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. "

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

" To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

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