"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."

Work, Curiosity, Poets

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"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."

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Childhood

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Reading

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People

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

"Do not be weary to make money."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

"Do all the work you while you still have strength."

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"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."

"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."

"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."

"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."

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"We control the content of our dreams."

"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about."

"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."

"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."