The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

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The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

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When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

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When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

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A Life

Innocence?
In a sense.
In no sense!

Was that it?
Was that it?
Was that it?

That was it.

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We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

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I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

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When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

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When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

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