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"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."
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"Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive."
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"When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy."
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"The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players."
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"My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?"
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"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
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"If you have no job, help is needed."
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"I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself."
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"May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."
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"Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate."
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"You can't help those who don't know they need help."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
Poems
"The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me."
Language
"We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies."
Writing
"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it."
Poetry
"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
Work
"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
Pleasure
"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
Employment
"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
Attention
"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."
Living
"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
Creativity
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