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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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

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

" As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. "

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

" 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 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. "

" If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I like books that are fat and full. "

" I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "