What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.Robert Penn Warren
The end of man is knowledge but theres one thing he cant know. He cant know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he cant know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasnt got and which if he had it would save him.
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
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Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel.... not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, 'What do I really feel about this'
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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
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