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I've never thought of myself ...

I've never thought of myself as a singer anyway. . . I've been free from those considerations because so many people over the years told me I don't have a voice. I kind of bought that. I never thought that much about it to begin with. I knew I didn't have one of the great voices. As my Damon Runyanesque lawyer used to say, "none of you guys can sing. If I want to hear singing, I'll go to the Metropolitan Opera."

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If you're squeezed for inform...

If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

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I feel that, you know, the en...

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

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Women stand for the objective ...

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

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We used to play music for fun....

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

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I never really liked poetry re...

I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

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I always thought that poetry i...

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.

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I think the term poet is a ver...

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

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Success is survival....

Success is survival.

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And most people have a woman i...

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

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Music is the emotional life of...

Music is the emotional life of most people.

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I don't trust my inner feeling...

I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

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Everybody knows the dice are l...

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

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If you want a lover I'll do an...

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

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It was a dance of masks and ev...

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

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Stunned and still not sufferin...

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

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You should go from place to pl...

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

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I alwaysthought of myself as a...

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

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A poem has a certain - a diffe...

A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it's a completely different time reference.

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You who wish to conquer pain, ...

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

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