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"It is not something you can tell by looking at a person, but trust is always being increased or decreased as you interact with a person."

"To Confess Is To Surrender."

"I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most."

"This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love."

"Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes."

"How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?"
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"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."


"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."


"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."


"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."


"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."


"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."


"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."


"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"
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