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"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."
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"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
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"You can't help those who don't know they need help."
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"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
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"Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform."
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"Running with the wrong crowd will never help you."
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"There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you."
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"If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least."
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"If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously."
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"I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help."
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"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
Pleasure
"Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that."
Time
"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
Community
"Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated."
Literature
"There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something."
Being
"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."
Poetry
"The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition."
Language
"I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself."
Literature
"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."
Friendship
"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."
Architecture
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