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"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."
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"And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you."
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"She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever."
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"I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings."
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"If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated."
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"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."
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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
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"Be as good as you would want to follow yourself."
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"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
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"There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler."
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"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
Family
"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."
Life
"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
Truth
"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
Personal
"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
Love
"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
Emotional
"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
Energy
"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
Work
"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
Poetry
"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
Books
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