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“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
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“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.”
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Selected Letters
― Selected Letters
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