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• I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
• I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
• I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
• I was playing catch with the European audience.
• I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
• Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?
• You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble
• ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION
• There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out…
• An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
• O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.
• I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

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