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In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

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There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

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When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.

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Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

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All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

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When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

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The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

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The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 1st, 1941

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