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"Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever."
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
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"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."
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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."
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"When coming to sex: First served, first come."
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"I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex."
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"The most unfair thing about sex is that men are almost always guaranteed an orgasm."
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"When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief."
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"Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery."
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"What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"
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"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."
Childhood
"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
Work
"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."
Poetry
"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."
Man
"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."
Work
"There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply."
Poetry
"I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."
Friendship
"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up."
Writing
"I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using."
Writing
"I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader."
Writing
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