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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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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.'"

"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."

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