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The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

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I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

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Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

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I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

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I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

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It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

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I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

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I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 19th, 1942

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