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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

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Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 28th, 1908

Died: November 17th, 1995

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