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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."
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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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"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 was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
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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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"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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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
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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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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"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
"The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all."
Poetry
"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
Poet
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
Culture
"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."
Poetry
"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."
Poetry
"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
People
"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."
Youth
"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."
Poetry
"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."
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