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Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

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What writing does is to reveal.

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I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

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To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: August 28th, 1952

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