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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

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Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

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Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

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Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

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If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

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I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 10th, 1935

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