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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.
- All My Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
- Nov 07, 2020
Many of my poems are not sexual.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
We control the content of our dreams.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020