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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

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"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."

Poetry

"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."

Work

"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."

Art

"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."

People

"People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel."

Change

"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."

Poetry

"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."

Poetry

"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."

Poetry

"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."

Culture

"But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most."

Love