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"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"
"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."
"To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!"
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"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."
"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
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