If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
From Mary Oliver
I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.
I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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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