"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."

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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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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

Mark Strand, American Poet

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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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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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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

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"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."

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"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."

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"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."

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"Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically."

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"We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies."

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"When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence."

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"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."

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"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."

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"I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself."

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"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."

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"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."

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