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"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."
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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."
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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."
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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
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"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."
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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
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"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."
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"Heaven set couples for babies' birth."
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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."
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"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."
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"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."
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"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
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"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."
Character
"We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people."
People
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
Family
"If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me."
People
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
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"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
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