“ The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through … ”
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“ I'm heading for a cleannamed place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jacko'lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities. ”
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“ Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail ”
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“ There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. ”
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“ I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. ”
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“ In the increasingly convincing darknessThe words become palpable, like a fruitThat is too beautiful to eat. ”
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“ In the increasingly convincing darknessThe words become palpable, like a fruitThat is too beautiful to eat. ”
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“ There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. ”
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“ Paris is "the city," isn't it, and I am a lover of cities. It can be experienced much more pleasantly and conveniently than any other city I know. It's so easy to get around on the metro, and so interesting when you get there — each arrondissement is like a separate province, with its own capital and customs and even costumes. ”
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“ In the increasingly convincing darknessThe words become palpable, like a fruitThat is too beautiful to eat. ”
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“ Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead.From the minute we discover it with eyes closedAdvancing into mountain light.Ouch. ”
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“ In the increasingly convincing darknessThe words become palpable, like a fruitThat is too beautiful to eat. ”
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“ We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time. ”
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“ I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. ”
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“ There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. ”
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“ I was doubly thrilled. Because had been my favorite poet ever since I first read him at the age of, I guess, 16. Because he was the first modern poet I felt I could understand and empathize with. So, coming from him, it was even more rewarding. ”
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“ After you've lived in Paris for a while, you don't want to live anywhere, including Paris. ”
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“ After you've lived in Paris for a while, you don't want to live anywhere, including Paris. ”
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“ Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead.From the minute we discover it with eyes closedAdvancing into mountain light.Ouch. ”
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“ All things seem mention of themselvesAnd the names which stem from them branch out to other referents.Hugely, spring exists again. ”
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“ Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead.From the minute we discover it with eyes closedAdvancing into mountain light.Ouch. ”
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“ There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. ”
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