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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

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The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch.

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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 27th, 1932

Died: February 11th, 1963

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