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"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."
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"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."
"If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him."
"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."
"There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people."
"Your discovery and realization of your personality for the well-being of humanity is much more essential."
"Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials."
"knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings."
"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."
"Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?"
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."
"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
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