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We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…
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Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned…
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I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.
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I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing…
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If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath…
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying…
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I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me…
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The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.
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Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…
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Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
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I write poems to find out why I write them
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