"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."

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"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."

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"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."

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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

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"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."

Youth,

"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."

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"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."

Nature, Poetry, Poems

"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."

Art, Order

"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."

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"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."

"I like poems that are complex."

"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."

"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."

"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."

"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."

"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."

"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

"Clear skies do not promise rain."

"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

"Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn."

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."