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" The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful. "

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" My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience. "

" I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. "

" It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. "

" If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. "

" Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. "

" I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type. "

" This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. "

" The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. "

" There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. "

" I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. "

" When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time. "

" I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. "

" At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work. "

" So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking! "

" Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me. "

" Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me. "

" Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. "

" I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back. "