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"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face."
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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
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"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now."
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"I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all."
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"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."
Dream
"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
Compassion
"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."
Rain
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Life
"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."
Children
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Light
"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
Dream
"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
Depression
"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."
Love
"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity."
Work
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