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My love of poetry comes from the actualization I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
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