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"Story had meant something to me. And I guess it's part of the world's ways to see it go, and I wonder what's going to be next?"
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"I am not even a real artist - know I am a fake of some sort - sort of write from the bowels of disgust, almost entirely. Yet, when I see what the others are doing, I go on with it."
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"Show me an old poet and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master."
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"The only thing intelligent about a good art is if it shakes you alive, otherwise it's hokum,"
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"I think the letter itself is important as a form, just as the poet-form, and it has a way of saying that the poem-form does not, and also the other way around,"
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"The mass, both the actual mass and the Artistic mass (in the sense of large practicing numbers only) are always far behind, practicing safety not only in the material and economic life but in the life of the so-called soul."
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" I am not addicted to reading my stuff after writing it. It's like hanging onto faded flowers."
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"it's a man's own business if he'd rather fiddle with a poem than invest in real estate."
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"That's the danger of talking. You talk talk talk all wax and wallow and pretty soon you don't know what you are saying... I don't... that's why I feel much better when I am mostly quiet."
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"I feel that I am too old to be destroyed - creatively - it's ingrained like death, no shaking it off."
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"you compare only the best to the best. You can't help it. Once a man has leaped 18 feet straight up into the air and then comes back and only leaps 13 feet, it's just not enough for us."
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"I don't believe in pain as a pusher of art. Pain is too often. We can breathe without it. If it will let us."
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