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"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"
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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
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"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."


"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."


"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."


"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."


"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."


"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."


"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."


"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
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