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"Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me."
"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
"The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why."
"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."
"Don't shun oppositions. They are there to position you well. Opposition is the great valley between great men and they that give up because of the arduous journey they may have to take through the valley. Don't shun oppositions, Position yourself with oppositions!"
"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
"I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge."
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"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."
"Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged."
"The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me."
"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."
"We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies."
"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."
"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it."
"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."
"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
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