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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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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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Personal Development
"Children are angels."
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"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."
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"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."
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"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"
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"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."
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"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."
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"A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship."
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"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
Poetry
"I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood."
Blood
"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."
Poetry
"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
Poetry
"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
Books
"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
Poetry
"Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there."
Literature
"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
Family
"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
Poetry
"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
Prose
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