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"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."
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"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."
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"Do you know yourself?."
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
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"If knowing something got you where you needed to go, you'd be there already. Put your hand to your heart, take a deep breath in...listen to your heart. It knows."
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"And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up."
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"One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer."
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"I'm a fool.At least i'm a self aware fool."
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"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
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"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."
Poetry
"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."
Poetry
"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."
Poetry
"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."
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"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."
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"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."
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"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."
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"Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."
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"It's very hard to write humor."
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"I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes."
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