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"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."
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"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."
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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
Poetry
"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."
Family
"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."
Poetry
"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."
Work
"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
"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
People
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
Sense
"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
"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 afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."
God
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