I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
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Many of my poems are not sexual.
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.
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