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"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."
"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."
"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."
"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."
"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."
"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
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