"Many of my poems are not sexual."

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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."

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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."

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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."

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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 liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."

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"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."

Writing

"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up."

Writing

"I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse."

Sex

"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."

Reading

"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."

Reading

"I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using."

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"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."

Work

"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."

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"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."

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"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about."

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