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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army."
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