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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology
"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
Hope
"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
Art
"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
Literature
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones."
Family
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
History
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
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