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• The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.
• Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
• Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
• I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
• The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.
• To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail,…
• But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
• Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.
• The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
• Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him,…
• I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
• If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be…

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