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"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."
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"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."
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