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• There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
• Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's…
• I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.
• You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.
• How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.
• I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.
• My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what…
• My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
• The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
• I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
• I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
• My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

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