I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

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I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

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I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

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When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

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There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

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The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

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This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

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The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

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