"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."

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"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."

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"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."

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"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."

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"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."

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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."

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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."

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"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."

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"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."

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"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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"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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