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Foods for thought: Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, remembers the life she led when she first moved to Cape Cod more than 40 years ago to work as a full-time poet. Though not rich with money, she was sustained by a greater wealth around her.(my countryside)

Years ago, in some consideration of my writings, a reviewer--I have forgotten who it was--surmised that I must have a private income of some substance, since all I ever seemed to do was walk around the woods and the dunes and the long beaches of my town, Provincetown on Cape Cod, where I have lived, now, for more than 40 years. It was a silly surmise. Looking at the world, whatever shape my finances were in, was the important part of my life and therefore was what I wrote about. It was as simple as that. I had no private income--indeed, just about no income at all.

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Poets, if they ever make a living from their writings, do not do so when they are ...

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