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"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."

"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."

"If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget."

"The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product."

"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
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