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    William Carlos Williams
    “You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.”
    William Carlos Williams, I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet

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    Gary Soto
    “I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”
    Gary Soto, New and Selected Poems

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    Junot Díaz
    “Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
    Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao



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