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To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one's notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.

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The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.

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With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

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As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

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I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

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Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

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The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

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Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

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Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

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To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 24th, 1940

Died: January 28th, 1996

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