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Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

Dreiser ... I love ... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

We live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

For all dead loves and all remembered things. I have travelled through many seas.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.