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I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

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These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 24th, 1919

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