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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man-fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut off from them.

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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

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