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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

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By night an atheist half believes in a God.

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

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I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

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Life has no beginning, middle or end.

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