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There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.
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Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.
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Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
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I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there really was such a job. And if he could just write a poem that incorporated everything he felt and suspected and hoped for from America that he would have the position.
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You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.
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Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.
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Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
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Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they’ll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you’ve changed into that very simple shape.
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Truth always leaves a pleasure asking questions.
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