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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
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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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"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"
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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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"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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"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
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"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
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"Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."
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"I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds."
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"He is so old that his blood type was discontinued."
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"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
Humor
"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
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"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
"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
"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
"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
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