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"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
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"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."
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"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"
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