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My Earliest Poems Were A Way Of Talking To Somebody. I Suppose To Myself.

I'm Afraid We Live At The Mercy Of A Power, Maybe A God, Without Mercy. And Yet We Find It, As I Have, From Others.

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.

I Started Listening To Music When I Wrote When I Had Three Sons At Home.