The beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - William Carlos Williams

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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

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Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

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