When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
From Rita Dove
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
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.
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.
It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
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.
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
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