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• A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out…
• ...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted…
• Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
• Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in…
• I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
• In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he…
• Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which…
• I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on…
• Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and…
• One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one…
• Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
• Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American…

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