What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.Mary Oliver
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
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