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• Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough…
• Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
• In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
• To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too.…
• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a…
• Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to…
• I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look…
• Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you…
• The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
• Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never…
• We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
• A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

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