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Money. You don't know where it's been,And it talks.
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We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.
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Teach us the names of what we have destroyed."
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To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.
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Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
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We necessarily bring the whole of our hairy and heavy humanity to worship" (29).
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Two great poets are stronger than two thousand mediocrities" (31).
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The Catholic writer really needs only three things to succeed: faith, hope and ingenuity" (31).
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The writer needs good works--good literary ones" (33).
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It is time to renovate and reoccupy our own tradition" (35).
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Literature has many uses, not all of which occur in a classroom" (20).
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For thousands of years, poetry was taught badly, and consequently it was immensely popular" (24).
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Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.
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