“One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.”
“Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.”
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