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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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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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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'm a better polemicist in prose."
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"In true prose everything must be underlined."
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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"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."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"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."
Poetry
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"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."
Love
"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."
Character
"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
Students
"The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new."
Art
"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."
People
"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
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