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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe."
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"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."
Poetry
"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."
Identity
"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."
Change
"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."
Thought
"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."
Old
"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."
Writing
"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."
Love
"It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work."
Work
"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
People
"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."
Work
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