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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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"My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist."
Writing
"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."
Home
"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."
Writing
"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."
Home
"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."
Old
"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."
Love
"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
"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."
Thought
"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
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