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I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adored, like the younger befriends or reaches out to their hero, and for me, whenever you meet some younger person, who has a fire in their gut, a way of being in the world, it excites you.

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Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. …

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The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

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People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

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I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthr…

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I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it s…

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People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their frien…

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Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

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Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

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