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" I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth. "

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" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "

" The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. "

" I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things. "

" I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve. "

" The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational. "

" I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination. "

" I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. "

" Fresh or changing conditions ferment fresh forms. "

" I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me. "

" In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. "

" I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences. "

" Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. "

" The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance. "

" I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief. "

" My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader. "

" I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going. "

" One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you. "

" Life has to have the plenitude of art. "

" Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions. "

" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "

" As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations. "

" It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet. "

" Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself. "

" You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try. "

" Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause. "

" It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. "

" As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn. "

" I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. "

" I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off. "

" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "