"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."

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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."

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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

Poems,

"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

Poems, Trying, Want

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

Peter Bichsel, Swiss Writer

Poems,

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

Poems, Writing

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

Poems, Will, Years

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

James Welch, American Author

Poems,

"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

Peter Davison, British Actor

Poems, Reason, Will

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

John Ashbery, American Poet

Poems,

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

Poems,

"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

Poems, Reason

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"I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists."

Philosophy, Youth

"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting."

Creation, Exhaustion, Expression

"If nothing is at risk, nothing is established."

Nothing, Risk

"Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events."

Change, Events, Result, Sea

"When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet."

Thought, Europe, Years

"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"

Music,

"Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply."

Nature, Success, Failure, Questioning

"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."

Nature, Work

"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."

Reflection,

"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."

Art, Work, Vision, Being