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"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
"I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility."
"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."
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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."
"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
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