Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
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The world takes up its trades; the man his wits,
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
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What actually took place is now lost.
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I was eighteen or nineteen years old, and I'd get these genius ideas for novels and try to finish then in three or four days without going to sleep.
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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
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