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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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"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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"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."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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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."
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"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."
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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"Many of my poems are not sexual."
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"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
Marriage
"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
Now
"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me."
Reflection
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
Nothing
"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."
Emotional
"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."
Poetry
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally."
Reflection
"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
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