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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."
Childhood
"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
Work
"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."
Man
"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."
Work
"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."
Reading
"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."
Reading
"Many of my poems are not sexual."
Poems
"We control the content of our dreams."
Dream
"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about."
People
"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."
Sex
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