"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."

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"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."

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"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."

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"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."

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"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."

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"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."

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"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."

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"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."

"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."

"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."

"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."