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"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."
Joy
"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
Adversity
"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
Favorite
"I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive."
Reading
"Libraries are where it all begins."
Literature
"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."
Time
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
Education
"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"
Death
"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."
Being
"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."
Writing
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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Personal Development
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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Personal Development
"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"Music is breath of life."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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