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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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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
"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."
"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."
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
"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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