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"Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence."
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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."
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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."
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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."
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"My heart ist melting, I love you, Drops of Gold."
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"You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand."
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"A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds."
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"Poetrymelts my bones.enters my blood.and changesits composition."
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"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going."
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"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."
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"In the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone's deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone's smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against."
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"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
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"What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way."
Writing
"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding."
Poetry
"I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another."
People
"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
Time
"After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half."
Education
"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
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"I think situations are more important than plot and character."
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"Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence."
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