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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Argue Hath Immortality Life
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Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

Employ Freedom How Know
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Delightful Rare Tell Truth
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If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

Africa Bob Bob Marley Climb
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Develop Hard Hard Times Muscles
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Action Constructive Ndecision Reverie
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Feel Head I Feel Know
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I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

Come Complete Control Deserve
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Bath Cure Few Few Things
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Slant Tell But Truth
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I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

Generally Going Know More
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Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Most Nothing Saying Says
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dying New Night Road
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The brain is wider than the sky.

Brain Sky Than Wider
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The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

Day Now Perfect Up
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Again Come Life Makes
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There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.
Am Fool Hospital I Am
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All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Artists Everybody Fashion Favorite
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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Axis Babies Baby Been
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I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

Always Brothers Doing Games
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
Blue-Collar England Family Kid
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

About Bundle Car Childhood
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Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.
About Just Me Mountains
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I loved the world of imagination.
Imagination Loved World Thinking
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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Belief Believe Beyond Force
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

America Arrogant England Her
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Because Beings Better Dogs
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Bad By The Time Did Get
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Breath Creation Death Initial
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

College Done Field Fire
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Bush Charms Else Fear
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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

About Alice Being Believing
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Had Hurry Mother Never
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
Always Been Die Fighter
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Affection Became Came Child
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Again Book Editing Few
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Eldest Harm Mother Nature
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Broken Hopes Lest Life
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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
Artist Author Badly Either
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Adjectives Advances Being Felt
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