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"America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"
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"You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy."
"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."
"The word in your mouth is anarchy."
"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."
"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."
"And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking."
"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."
"Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer."
"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."
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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."
"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."
"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."
"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."
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