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» The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

» There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

» Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

» Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

» A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

» Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

» If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

» What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

» If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

» To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

» In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

» One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

» A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

» Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

» Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

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