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Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.
Human life is too difficult for people.
I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.
To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.
You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.
I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and... →
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the... →
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful... →
When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an... →