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"Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together."

"A touch of love makes everything better."
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"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."

"I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write."

"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."

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

"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."

"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."

"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."
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