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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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"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."
"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."
"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
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"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."
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"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"
"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
"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 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."
"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."
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