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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

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Tell the truth. . . maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

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You cannot play for safety and make art.

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I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

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I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

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