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I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

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I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.

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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

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There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

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But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

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I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched.

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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 27th, 1932

Died: February 11th, 1963

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