- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.
- Nov 07, 2020
A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had good recognition from the Southern writers, but the publishers never took any notice of that.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020