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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

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The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

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I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

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When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

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Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

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All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.

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To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

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I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?

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Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

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I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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