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"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."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought."
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"Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof."
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
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"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology
"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
Hope
"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
Art
"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
Literature
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones."
Family
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
History
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
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