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- The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from…
- 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…
- 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…
- If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they…
- From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle