She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

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You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

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I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

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He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

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William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

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There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

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