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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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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"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."
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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."
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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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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."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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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
"Our literature is in great shape."
Literature
"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."
Poems
"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
"I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians."
Being
"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
"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."
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"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."
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"I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours."
Study
"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."
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