I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.Mary Oliver
What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places
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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
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Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.
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