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"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
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"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."
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"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
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