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

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" 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. "

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

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" I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life. "

" I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. "

" 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 simply do not distinguish between work and play. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "