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"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."
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"Is your voice value delivering the image you wish to convey? Is your voice coming across as smart, friendly, and positive or ignorant, rude, and negative?"
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"Your tone of voice can be conveyed in both the words you speak and in the words you write."
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"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears by voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me."
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"Have you ever paid notice to the full sound range of your voice? If you have ever been in a chorus or a singing group, you already know that they will separate the group based on each singer's pitch and assign their roles accordingly. While my speaking voice has a soprano pitch, my singing voice is a lower alto."
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"Truth even in the most whispered tones will always roar."
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"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."
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"I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma."
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"Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters."
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"I want the score to have a really big voice."
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"Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?"
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"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
"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."
Old
"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
Work
"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."
Voice
"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
Poetry
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
Sense
"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."
Poetry
"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."
Time
"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."
Family
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