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• To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face…
• People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
• That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's…
• Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.
• Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your…
• And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made…
• In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

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