"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."

Art, People, Interest, Literature

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"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."

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"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."

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"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."

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"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."

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"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."

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"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."

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