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

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" 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 love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. "

" I simply do not distinguish between work and play. "

" You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. "

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

" The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

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

" As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. "

" The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails. "

" We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. "

" I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all. "

" 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. "

" I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things. "

" I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment. "

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

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

" I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. "

" I like books that are fat and full. "

" I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem. "

" 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. "

" I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. "

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

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" To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. "

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