"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."

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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."

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"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."

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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."

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"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."

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"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."

"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."

"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."

"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."

"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."

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"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."