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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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"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."
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
"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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"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 best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
"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."
"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."
"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
"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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