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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I always aimed at being a legend. "

" Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. "

" I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. "

" Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. "

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

" The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. "

" I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. "

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

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

" I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country. "

" I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years. "

" 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. "

" Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV. "

" If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do. "

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