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" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

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" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

" I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. "

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

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

" Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. "

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" Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. "

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

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