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Mary Jo Salter

Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee.
You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.

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Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

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And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

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I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't know where the poems come from, and I feel, at least in the beginning, that I'm taking dictation from my own dream that I don't remember.

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All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in their heads; we're going to get some corner of it. We're going to do the best we can, but we already know it's beyond us.

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Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you know you're never going to read all those books. So the nervousness is also happy. Once I get going writing poetry is one of the happiest things I do, but it is also fraught with all of these anxieties.

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