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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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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale."
"I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction."
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
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