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There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

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My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write...

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all...

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go,...

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

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