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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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"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times."

"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."

"Friendship is a gift forever;Cherish everyday, forget it never"

"Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time."

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."

"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

"A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human."

"The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love."
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"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system."

"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."

"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."

"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it."

"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."

"Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated."

"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."

"Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged."

"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."
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