“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.”
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I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
