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I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

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Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

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Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

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The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

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Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city. . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.

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