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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"I like poems that are complex."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer."
Literature
"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
Employment
"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
Creativity
"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it."
Poetry
"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
Pleasure
"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."
Help
"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years."
Reading
"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."
Woman
"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
Work
"Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that."
Time
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