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> [I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/i-hope-any-poem-i-ve-ever-written-could-stand-on-its-own-and-not-need/)

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## More by Albert Goldbarth

> [I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/i-hope-any-poem-i-ve-ever-written-could-stand-on-its-own-and-not-need/)

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> [“If your life depended on coming up with a tally, if you could straighten its numbers into a flexible line around the moon and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/if-your-life-depended-on-coming-up-with-a-tally-if-you-could/)

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> [“... I slipped our wicker bed and walked the sands where we were also roughly repeated: some young couple, "you did," "I didn't," "you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/i-slipped-our-wicker-bed-and-walked-the-sands-where-we-were-also/)

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> [“you don’t understand the protoknowledge we’re born with, coded into our cells: soon soon soon enough we die. Even before we’ve seen the breast,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/you-don-t-understand-the-protoknowledge-we-re-born-with-coded-into/)

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> [I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/i-don-t-spend-time-thinking-about-an-aesthetic-out-of-which-i-create/)

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> [“Talk to me. I'll believe anything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/talk-to-me-i-ll-believe-anything/)

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> [“then "love," or "falling in love," an extra density textured into the weave of the days, a craziness, an orchidaceous interdimensional blossoming of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/then-love-or-falling-in-love-an-extra-density-textured-into-the-weave/)

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> [Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/physics-says-go-to-sleep-of-course-you-re-tired-every-atom-in-you-has/)

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> [“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/physics-says-go-to-sleep-of-course-you-re-tired-every-atom-in-you-has-2/)

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> [If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/if-you-agree-with-me-that-a-poem-can-be-as-bountiful-as-a-rich/)

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> [Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/astronomy-says-the-sun-will-rise-tomorrow-zoology-says-on-rainbow/)

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> [“How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/how-many-hands-were-shook-and-names-were-signed-and-pipes-were-passed/)

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> [Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-goldbarth/perhaps-you-have-seen-me-i-know-well-my-purpose-was-merely-that-of-a/)

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