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" 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. "

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

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

" It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone. "

" I'd rather write about polar bears than people. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read. "

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

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

" At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader 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. "

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

" I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. "

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" 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 have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write. "

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" 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. "

" My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing. "