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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"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."
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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