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I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had wr

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but Im glad that I did it. – Tom Glazer

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Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadnt thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden. – Tom Glazer

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Im afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though Im glad I am not any of these. – Tom Glazer

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My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. – Tom Glazer

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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. – Mark Strand

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Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – Robert Morgan

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