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"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."
Joy

"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
Adversity

"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
Favorite

"I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive."
Reading

"Libraries are where it all begins."
Literature

"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."
Imagination

"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."
Time

"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
Education

"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
Age

"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"
Death
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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Personal Development

"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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Personal Development

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Age merely shows what children we remain."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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