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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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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
"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."
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
"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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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
"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."
"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."
"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
"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."
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
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