"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."

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"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."

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"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

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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

James Broughton, American Director

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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

Mark Strand, American Poet

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"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

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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

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"Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana."

Imagination, Desire, Language, Montana

"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."

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"In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country."

Religion, Country, Spirituality, World

"The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves."

Society, Funny, Attitude

"My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself."

Focus, Nothing, Poems

"I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours."

Study,

"Our literature is in great shape."

Literature,

"Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves."

Government, People, Now

"I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal."

Work, People, Writers

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."

College, Community, Language, Now