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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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"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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"Love is all we need."
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"But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way."
Poetry
"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
Cultural
"I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers."
Poetry
"One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves."
Books
"American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet."
Poetry
"PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."
Poetry
"So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet."
War
"Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today."
Love
"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."
Reading
"I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry."
Poetry
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