I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.Rita Dove
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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