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I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

- Mary Oliver
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Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.

I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

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I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.