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I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

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Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working all day in the garden, moving rocks.

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You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake

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Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

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That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

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The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family.

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A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

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