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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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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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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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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"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."
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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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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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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
May
"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."
Life
"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."
Life
"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."
Death
"The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted."
War
"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."
Chance
"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment."
Home
"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe."
Love
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
Poems
"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."
Books
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