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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

~W. S. Merwin

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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 30th, 1927

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