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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."
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"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"
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"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."
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"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."
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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
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"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."
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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
Poetry
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
Love
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"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
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