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" I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture. "

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" In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids. "

" I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff. "

" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "

" The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about. "

" I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. "

" Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away. "

" Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. "

" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "

" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "

" I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions. "

" I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose. "

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog. "

" I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "

" As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. "

" Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man. "

" The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. "

" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "

" Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. "

" Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home. "

" When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are. "

" When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem. "

" If you have a dog, and you're a person whose moods are constantly changing, there's a moment when you look at the dog, and you feel bad for them because they're attached to you, and so it's funny for the dog to vocalize those things in some ways. "

" Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. "

" I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. "

" When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away. "

" I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. "

" To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it. "

" With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first. "