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"Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear."
Will

"Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events."
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"Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough."
Life

"But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history."
History

"If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done."
Language

"I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one."
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"So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations."
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"I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort."
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