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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"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."
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."
"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."
"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."
"I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader."
"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery."
"I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."
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