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"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."
"As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'"
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
"If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible."
"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"
"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."
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