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I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives.

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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

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I talk to God but the sky is empty.

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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

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I am too pure for you or anyone.

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I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

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If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

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I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.

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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 27th, 1932

Died: February 11th, 1963

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