"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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"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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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."

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"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

"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."

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"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."

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"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."

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"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."

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