"Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly."
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"Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly."
"I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been."
"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army."
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."
"I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow."
"I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings."
"I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful."
"I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels."
"The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring."
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
"I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry."
"Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners."
"I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction."
"It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do."
"I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood."
"I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have."
"I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us."
"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
"I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine."
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