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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog. "

" I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids. "

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

" When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem. "

" I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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