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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…
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People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
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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…
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Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.
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Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your…
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And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
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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…
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In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
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The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up…
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Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?
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I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,
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We suffer each other to have each other a while.
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