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"I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems."
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"Love nature as if it is your own garden of love."
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"Nourish yourself with the water of love to grow flowers of happiness in the garden of your heart."
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"Love has power in it; it can melt any heart, if your love is true and divine."
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"When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them."
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"Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love."
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"The human race should learn from dogs about the enormous power of love."
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"Love is the ultimate power. Never forget to use it to win over your enemies."
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"Be the God or goddess of love and love everyone."
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"A touch of love makes everything better."
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"When someone tries to make you happy, that is a true sign of love."
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"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
Humor
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
Poetry
"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
Students
"I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do."
Life
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
Family
"I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems."
Love
"Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners."
Poetry
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
Poetry
"I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood."
Blood
"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
Poetry
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