"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
-David Antin
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"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.“
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"The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin."
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"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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