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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"I like poems that are complex."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only the sour, metallic frankness of salt and snow."
Nature


"Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules."
Creativity


"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."
Reflection


"Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads."
Philosophy


"Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face.Hello, you who made the morningand spread it over the fieldsand into the faces of the tulipsand the nodding morning glories,and into the windows of, even, themiserable and the crotchety " best preacher that ever was,dear star, that just happensto be where you are in the universeto keep us from ever-darkness,to ease us with warm touching,to hold us in the great hands of light "good morning, good morning, good morning.Watch, now, how I start the dayin happiness, in kindness."
Inspirational


"Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you."
Prayer


"So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing,and put your lips to the world.And live your life."
Creativity


"I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think-no, you will realize-that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying."
Creativity


"Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?"
Happiness


"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."
Sacrifice
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