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Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

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The summer demands and takes away too much.
But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

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Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.

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The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

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I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

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And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

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I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

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