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

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

" I like books that are fat and full. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 simply do not distinguish between work and play. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. "

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

" 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. "