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" When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are. "

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" I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture. "

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" It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem. "

" The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. "

" The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace. "

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" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" I always aimed at being a legend. "

" If you have a dog, and you're a person whose moods are constantly changing, there's a moment when you look at the dog, and you feel bad for them because they're attached to you, and so it's funny for the dog to vocalize those things in some ways. "

" Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man. "

" The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about. "

" Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. "

" Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV. "

" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "

" Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot. "

" As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. "

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" I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "

" When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem. "

" I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose. "

" If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do. "

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

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" I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country. "

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