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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
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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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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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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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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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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 have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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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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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
Poems
"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."
Life
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
Nothing
"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
Music
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."
Emotional
"My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do."
Emotional
"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."
Emotional
"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."
Work
"Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost."
Literature
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