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" Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home. "

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" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "

" The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. "

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" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "

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