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" With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first. "

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" I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff. "

" Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style. "

" I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. "

" Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. "

" 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. "

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

" The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. "

" I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions. "

" 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. "

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

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

" To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it. "

" I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet. "

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

" I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects. "

" Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away. "

" I always aimed at being a legend. "

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

" Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. "

" I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie. "

" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "

" I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life. "

" I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. "

" Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. "

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

" The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. "

" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "

" 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 my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids. "

" I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. "