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" Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem. "

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

" I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings. "

" Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

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

" There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay. "

" Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. "

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" 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. "

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

" Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? "

" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "