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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
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"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."


"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."


"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
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