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The future is always beginning now.

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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

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Each moment is a place you've never been.

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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

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Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

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It's very hard to write humor.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 11th, 1934

Died: November 29th, 2014

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