"A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better."
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"It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me."
"Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me."
"Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried."
"Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem."
"I sometimes get very protective of the people I play."
"Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily."
"I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great."
"It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not."
"Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful."
"Sometimes things are better off forgotten."
"Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not."
"Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days"
"It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated."
"But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous."
"Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of."
"I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget."
"You are always a winner. Sometimes you win, sometimes you make others win."
"I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down."
"Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot."