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“In the end what kills is not agony (for agony at least asks something of the soul) but everyday life.”

“(…) the American ethos is still fundamentally puritanical and its values based not on a flowering of life or anything like that, but on restrictions, disciplines, mores that have to be questioned before any human being can become fully human.”

“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?”

“(…) the poem is primarily a dialogue with the self and the novel a dialogue with others. They come from entirely different modes of being. I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.”