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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."
"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation."
"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."
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