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I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

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Trying

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

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Hope

Devil

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Atlantis will rise again.

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Will

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

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Fact

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

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Sleep

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

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Friends

Kitchen

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

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Poetry

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

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Years

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

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Sound

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

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Cliches

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.