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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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 love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. "

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

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

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