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Honest labor bears a lovely face.

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This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

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Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

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You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

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There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

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So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

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William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

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To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

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I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

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He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

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