"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."

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"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."

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Change

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

Poetry

"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

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

Writing

"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."

Poetry

"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."

Work

"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

"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

"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."

Old

"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."

Thought