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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. "

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" It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone. "

" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

" In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that. "

" My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. "

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

" You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. "

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

" 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. "

" One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. "

" Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. "

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

" 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 simply do not distinguish between work and play. "

" Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "