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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
"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."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
"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."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."
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"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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