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"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home."
Home
"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
"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!"
Time
"I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop."
Reading
"Many of my poems are not sexual."
Poems
"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."
Fact
"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
"We control the content of our dreams."
Dream
"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
"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."
Reading
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