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To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

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At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

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Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

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You listen to them and you're hearing a world-view, a body-view, you're hearing a spirit of a person, and mind, and heart, and soul.

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I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

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I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

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I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

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The fact that there was a lot of anger and sorrow and a sense of connection to destructive feelings in "The Father" doesn't bother me.

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Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

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When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

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Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

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Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

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Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

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My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

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The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

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Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.

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I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

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