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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

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Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.

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I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

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When the peace is a trade route, figures For the budget, reduction of population,...

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The faceless head lay still. I could not run Or walk, but stood. Alone in the public clearing...

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And even you will come to this foul shame, This ultimate infection,...

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Death is untutored, with an ignorant frown For precious identities of breath.

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The stage is about to be swept of corpses. You have no more chance than an infusorian Lodged in a hollow molar of an eohippus.

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Buzzards float upon the sky Shrilling a metaphysic cry,...

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I suck in smoke! I smile at grimy mirth, And laugh to think that you had parried death.

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Not glad, lifeless tycoon, nor sorry feel For neither Bull nor Bear attends your way....

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O God of our flesh, return us to Your wrath, Let us be evil could we enter in Your grace, and falter on the stony path!

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The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

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I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

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What shall we say of the bones, unclean, Whose verdurous anonymity will grow?...

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By the roadside a hideous carrion, quivering On a clean bed of pebbly clay,...

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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

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Landor, not that I doubt your word, That you had strove with none...

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For laughter frames the lips of death— Death frames the Singer and the Song.

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