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• A word is elegy to what it signifies.
• Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
• Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
• It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
• Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
• When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon…
• It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
• One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we…

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