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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

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I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

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People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

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Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

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Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.

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While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

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