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Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

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The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

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Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.

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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

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Life has a great deal up its sleeve.

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This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

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No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 24th, 1940

Died: January 28th, 1996

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