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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country. "

" Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home. "

" I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. "

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "

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

" 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. "

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away. "

" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "

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