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My Wife And I Just Started Listening To The Late Beethoven Quartets Together, An Activity I Recommend For All Married Couples, But That Doesn't Really Mean That I'm Finished Reading.

Visitors Who Come From The Soviet Union And Tell You How Marvelous It Is To Be Able To Look At Public Buildings Without Advertisements Stuck All Over Them Are Just Telling You That They Can't Decipher The Cyrillic Alphabet.

I'm Certainly Not A Linguist. I Learned What Languages I Could Learn In Order To Read Books And I Can't Really Speak Them. I Couldn't Have Stayed Out Of Jail In Most Of Them.

It's A Big Thing To Call Yourself A Poet. All I Can Say Is That I Have Always Written Poems. I Don't Think I'm Interested In Any Discussion About Whether I'm A Good Poet, A Bad Poet Or A Great Poet. But I Am Sure, I Want To Write Great Poems. I Think Every Poet Should Want That.

I've Got Life For A Subject Because As Life Starts To Drain Away, You Start Seeing Very Clearly What Life Is, For The First Time.