” Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel. “
” As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn. “
” One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don’t get over it. You get stronger, you try and live on, you endure, you change, but you don’t get over it. You carry it with you. “
” Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don’t recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose. “
” You’re shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you’re working on its behalf. “
” When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. “
” A novel takes place over time. It’s a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can’t just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem. “
” I don’t think you can read poetry while you’re watching television very well. “
” The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn’t exist or inhere in poems alone. “
” A person who’s only suffering can’t write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective. “
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