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"We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day."
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"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."


"We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day."


"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."


"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."


"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."


"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
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