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Much has been written about the life of the mind.

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Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

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I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.

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I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

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Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

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The day breaks not, it is my heart.

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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

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Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

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I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

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