"Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture."

Poetry, Right, Words

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"Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture."

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

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"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."

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"I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them."

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"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."

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"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."

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"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."

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"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."

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"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."

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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."

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"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."

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