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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"Children are angels."
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"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."
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"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"
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"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."
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"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."
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"A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship."
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"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"Children are holy angels."
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"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
People
"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."
Poetry
"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."
Home
"I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves."
Identity
"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."
Work
"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."
Old
"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."
Thought
"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."
Writing
"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."
Voice
"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
Work
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