I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Marguerite Young
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- All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
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