I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

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A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

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I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

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