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"Language cares."
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"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
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"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
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"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
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"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
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"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."
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"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."
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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."
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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"
Work
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
Poetry
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
Fact
"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones."
Family
"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
Talk
"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
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
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