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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

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The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

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All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

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I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?

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The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

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