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"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."
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"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."
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"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."
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"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
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"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"
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"I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need."
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"We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today."
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"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."
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"Boxing is show-business with blood."
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"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."
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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."
Poetry
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
Poetry
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
Love
"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."
Poetry
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
Family
"I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do."
Life
"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
Poetry
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