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"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."
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"The real safety net of life is community, family and nature."
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"We are members of the Church of Christ."
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"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."
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"If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you."
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"We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of the earth and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kids are sleeping and eat cake and friend chicken and shit. Why d'you think Hollis is still sleeping, kafir? Because we were up all night in the secret lair injecting butter frosting into our veins. ...A fatty trusts another fatty."
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"When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin."
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"It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding."
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"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."
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"Only the church can provide people with quality fellowship."
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"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
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"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
Age
"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."
Love
"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."
Poetry
"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
Writing
"I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them."
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"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."
Being
"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
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"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."
People
"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."
Poetry
"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."
Writing
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