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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those…
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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…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision…
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling…
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You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the…
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order…
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An attitude will give you heft.
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A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We…
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There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can…
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These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander…
— Terry Pratchett
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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will…
— Emily Dickinson
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Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body…
— Margaret Mitchell
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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm…
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