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• But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you…
• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.
• Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.
• Human life is too difficult for people.
• I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
• I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.
• Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
• All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed…
• I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious,…
• The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach…
• The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still…
• Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of…

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