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In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when som...more

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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are ...more

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is che...more

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What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your har...more

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Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the mo...more

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I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It ...more

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really...more