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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
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"Joy is sacred blessing."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
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"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."
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"Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you."
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"If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil."
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"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."
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"If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness."
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"Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has many hands, but no heart. Fear has many titles, but no honor. Hate has many forms, but no soul."
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"I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them."
Hope
"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."
Emotional
"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."
Emotional
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
Marriage
"I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art."
Art
"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally."
Reflection
"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."
Work
"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."
Life
"My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do."
Emotional
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