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

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" To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example. "

" I like books that are fat and full. "

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

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

" There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay. "

" I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. "

" I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. "

" The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. "

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

" I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished. "

" 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. "

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

Material Things

" I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things. "

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

" 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. "

" I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation. "

" Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. "

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

" I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem. "

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