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"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
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"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."
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"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."
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"A job is a temporary need."
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"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."
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"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."
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"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
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"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."
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"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."
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"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."
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"When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs."
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"Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically."
Writing
"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
Community
"The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me."
Language
"There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something."
Being
"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."
Architecture
"I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer."
Literature
"Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English."
Challenge
"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."
Writing
"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
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"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years."
Reading
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