“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
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