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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."
Self
"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."
Feminism
"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
Sense
"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."
Now
"Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way."
Strength
"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."
Age
"For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? -some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning-indeed they did."
Nostalgia
"Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed?"
Aging
"I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter."
Neglect
"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."
Control
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