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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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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
"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."
"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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"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
"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."
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
"You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does."
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