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

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" I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie. "

" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

" I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet. "

" Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. "

" I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects. "

" Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. "

" I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. "

" The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace. "

" Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. "

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

" Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" 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. "

" The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot. "

" I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life. "

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

" Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books. "

" As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. "

" I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions. "

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

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

" It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem. "

" The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about. "

" I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. "