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Grown men do not need leaders.

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A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens,
Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

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You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

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You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

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Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

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Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

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Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

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