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At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or... →
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to... →
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious... →
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's... →
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y.... →
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers -... →
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take... →
I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
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