"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."

-- Robert Morgan

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“Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.”
“The government invented the Internet.”
“Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.”
“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.”
“Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.”
“That's the first time I've seen sex between two men on the BBC.”
“Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.”
“We need to send a message to Vladimir Putin through stronger sanctions. We need him to understand that the sanctions that we put in place can have a significant impact on his economy that we need to deter further action from him. And understand who he is, former KGB colonel, he's a bully, and bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose but we need to do that economically. That is our strongest move at this point.”

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