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I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

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My mind is so cramped and dulled and fevered, there is no consistency of purpose, no oneness of aim; the very fibres are torn apart, and application deadened by the fiendish persistence of the coil of circumstance.

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Nothing can justify war.

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Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.

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I don't think I knew what real poetry was till I read Keats a couple of years ago.

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I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

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I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

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I am determined that this war, with all its powers for devastation, shall not master my poeting; that is, if I am lucky enough to come through all right.

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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

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To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

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Along a parabola life like a rocket flies, Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow.

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Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

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One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

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I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

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As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

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