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"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"
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"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."
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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
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"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."
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"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."
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"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
Poetry
"It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work."
Work
"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."
Time
"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
People
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
Sense
"I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves."
Identity
"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."
God
"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."
Family
"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."
Work
"My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist."
Writing
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