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Peter Bichsel

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

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Donna Grant

"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."

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Donna Grant

"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."

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Donna Grant

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

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Donna Grant

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

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Donna Grant

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

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Donna Grant

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

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Donna Grant

"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

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Donna Grant

"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

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Peter Bichsel
"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

Heart

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Peter Bichsel
"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

People

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Peter Bichsel
"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

Ambition

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Peter Bichsel
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

Poems

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Peter Bichsel
"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

Nation

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Peter Bichsel
"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."

Literature

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Peter Bichsel
"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."

Creativity

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Peter Bichsel
"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."

Language

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Peter Bichsel
"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."

Literature

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