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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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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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"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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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear 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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"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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"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."
Poetry
"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
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"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."
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"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."
Youth
"The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product."
Writing
"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
People
"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."
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"Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world."
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"Poetry is composing for the breath."
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"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."
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