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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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"Everybody is doing the same old thing."
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"Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before."
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"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."
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"To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run."
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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
Poetry
"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."
Family
"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."
Poetry
"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."
Love
"It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work."
Work
"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."
Time
"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
People
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
Sense
"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
"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
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