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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

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I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 24th, 1905

Died: September 15th, 1989

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