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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: August 28th, 1952

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