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" To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. "

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

" I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. "

" 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 have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. "

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

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

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

" I like books that are fat and full. "

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

" To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. "

" I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it. "

" One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. "

" Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along. "

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

" So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. "

" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

" 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. "

" In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. "

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

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

" Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious. "

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

" You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about. "

" Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private. "

" Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. "