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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."
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"Old foxes want no tutors."
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
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"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."
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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."
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"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level."
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"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."
Change
"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."
Old
"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
Poetry
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
Sense
"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."
Poetry
"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."
Time
"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."
Family
"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."
Home
"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."
Home
"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."
Writing
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