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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."

"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."

"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 tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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"According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time."
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