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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."

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

"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 like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

"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."

"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me."

"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
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