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We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways.

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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

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Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

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I have a visual imagination.

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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

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There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 27th, 1932

Died: February 11th, 1963

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