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Life will do anything for a living.
God serves the choosy. They know what to want ...
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.
Cherish your wilderness.
So many poems you go into and come up empty.
I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.
Everything pays for growing tame.
I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture ... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.
I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.
Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?
Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying.
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when
the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self
lay lightly down, and slept.
What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things?
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.
A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
To build is to dwell.
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.
Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.
If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.
