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    I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

    Climb | Walls | Both


    We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

    Suddenly


    I was playing catch with the European audience.

    Audience | Catch | European


    I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

    Remember


    I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

    Hope | Devil | Advocate


    You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

    Truth | Everybody | False


    You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

    Present | Exciting | Literally


    We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

    Moving | Nice


    This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

    Belief | Awake


    There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

    Life | Grace | Europe


    The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

    Sound | Poem | Simply


    The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

    Present | Heroes | Imitation


    I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

    Envy | Admire | Reason


    I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

    Sorry | Head | Born


    I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

    Cliches | Grown


    I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

    Poetry | Far | Anybody


    Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

    Matter | Vulgar | Based


    Atlantis will rise again.

    Rise | Again


    I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

    Sound | Homer


    You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

    Poetry | Life | Help


       

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