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"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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"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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"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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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"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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"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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"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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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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"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."
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"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."
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"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."
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"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."
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"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."
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"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."
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"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."
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"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."
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"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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