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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

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The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.

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I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

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To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

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I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

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In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 10th, 1935

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