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"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."

"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

"A friend is a favourable family."

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."

"A best friend is he who can emulate a dog but still can talk."

"A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better."

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."

"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"

"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."

"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."

"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."

"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
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