. American poet literary critic children's author essayist novelist; US Poet Laureate
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. Go to Quote / Comment
We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. Go to Quote / Comment
In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school—... Go to Quote / Comment
They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities. It was not dying—no, not ever dying;... Go to Quote / Comment
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. Go to Quote / Comment