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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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"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor."
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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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"Also, screw you-maybe you can be all stealthy and break into their building to get the woman out, but I can getus there and back safely. I did this for months and never got a second glance from anyone, including PSFs.'Probably because your ugly-ass face blinded them on the first look, she muttered."
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"An echo has no voice of its own."
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"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
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"Truth even in the most whispered tones will always roar."
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"Every single voice-no matter how soft the peep-longs to be heard."
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"By speaking in a competent and confident way, your message will sound more relevant and appropriate, reflecting you in a favorable light."
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"It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?"
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"A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent."
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"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."
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"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."
Change
"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
People
"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."
Family
"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."
Love
"My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist."
Writing
"It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work."
Work
"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."
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"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."
God
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