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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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