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"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."
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"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."
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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem."
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"I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream."
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"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."
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"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
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"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."
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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
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"Nature has different times."
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"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
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"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
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"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
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"Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought."
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"I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race."
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"I think we're all pretty odd."
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"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."
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"Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment."
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"This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music."
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