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Do not focus on being happy, focus on doing something useful; afterwards, happiness will flow towards you!

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. . . people get confidential at midnight.

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We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

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I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.

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To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

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When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

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It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

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