“Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.”
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If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
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