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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."
"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."
"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."
"The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved."
"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."
"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."
"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together."
"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."
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