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English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.

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What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

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The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

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Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.

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Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer.

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A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

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The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.

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Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

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I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

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You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 24th, 1940

Died: January 28th, 1996

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