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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 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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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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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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"Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady."
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"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."
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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
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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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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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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 would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
Poems
"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."
Society
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
Poems
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God
"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."
Art
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
Art
"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."
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"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
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