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/ page 835 of 1205 /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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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
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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 believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
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As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.
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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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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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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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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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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
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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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Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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