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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
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"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."
"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."
"We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people."
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."
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