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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

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I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

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Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

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A chronicle is very different from history proper.

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I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

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When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

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A lot happens by accident in poetry.

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A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 29th, 1920

Died: July 5th, 1991

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