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"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."
"The truth can do years of work in seconds."
"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."
"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."
"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."
"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."
"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."
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