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"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"No nation has friends only interests."
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
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"When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever."
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"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
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"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory."
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"Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach."
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"Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario."
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"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends."
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"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
Attention
"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."
Help
"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."
Writing
"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."
Poetry
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
Poems
"Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
Energy
"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
Creativity
"I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer."
Literature
"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
Employment
"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."
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