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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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"Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
Energy

"Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other."
Poetry

"When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence."
Poetry

"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."
Woman

"I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself."
Literature

"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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"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
Employment

"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years."
Reading

"Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated."
Literature

"The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me."
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"No matter what you have, no matter your experience level, sometimes you just need a hand."
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Personal Development

"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."
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"My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS."
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"We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova."
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"I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff."
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"O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand."
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"That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible."
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"I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform."
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"Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda."
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"If you have no job, help is needed."
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Personal Development
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