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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. "

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

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

" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

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

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

" My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" I like books that are fat and full. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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