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You Have Begun To Separate The Dark From The Dark.

There'll Always Be Working People In My Poems Because I Grew Up With Them, And I Am A Poet Of Memory.

My Mother Carried On And Supported Us; Her Ambition Had Been To Write Poetry And Songs.

For Sure I Once Thought Of Myself As The Poet Who Would Save The Ordinary From Oblivion.

You Have To Follow Where The Poem Leads. And It Will Surprise You. It Will Say Things You Didn't Expect To Say. And You Look At The Poem And You Realize, 'that Is Truly What I Felt.' That Is Truly What I Saw.