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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
"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."
"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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