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"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."

"I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out."

"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."
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"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."


"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."


"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."


"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."


"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."


"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!"


"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."


"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."


"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."


"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."
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