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"That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends."
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"There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory."
"Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time."Pfft, Levi said, "I'm picking out my own dress."
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
"Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship."
"Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States."
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"Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take."
"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
"Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without."
"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
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