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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."

"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."

"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 have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."

"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."

"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."

"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."
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