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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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"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."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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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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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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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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"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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"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
Humor
"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
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"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
"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."
Poetry
"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
Poetry
"One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice."
Time
"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
Experience
"I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry."
Poetry
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
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