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" Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. "

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

" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "