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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."


"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."


"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."


"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."


"We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day."


"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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