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"We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day."
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"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."
"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
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