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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

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Bring to me, it said, continual proof
you've been alive.

Alive, Proof, Said, Bring, Continual
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And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

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I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.

Bitches, Heart, Hearted, Son, Spent

What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C. . . . The often welcome melodic lie. . . . The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space. . . . a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

Attempt, Heartbreak, Lying, Music, Returned, Taken

I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I wrote poetry; I wouldn't go further. I was in my mid- to late-thirties before I felt that I was a poet, which I think meant that I had begun to embody my poems in some way. I wasn't just a writer of them. Hard to say what, as a poet, my place in the world is. Some place probably between recognition and neglect.

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There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

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