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"However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it."
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"Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism."
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"The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."
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"It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with all your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them."
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"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I've never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."
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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."
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"In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the bed of a river."
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"And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head."
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"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it."
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"To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity."
Art
"It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing."
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"The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate."
Literature
"However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others."
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"In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively."
Work
"Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself."
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"I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem."
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"It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)."
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