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"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."
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"As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world."
"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."
"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."
"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."
"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."
"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
"I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings."
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