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• ‟ It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

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• ‟ Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.

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• ‟ Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

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• ‟ I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

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• ‟ New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

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• ‟ There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

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• ‟ I've had someone, my assistant, type for me. I've done it that way for more than 50 years because I type with one finger, although quite rapidly.

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• ‟ One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

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