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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"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."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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"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."
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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"Many of my poems are not sexual."
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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."
Friendship
"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
Family
"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
Passion
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
Soul
"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."
Death
"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
Fool
"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
Fortune
"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."
Patience
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Adversity
"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."
Happiness
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