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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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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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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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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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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
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"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
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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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"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
"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
"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."
Poetry
"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
"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."
Now
"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
Poems
"If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget."
People
"And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet."
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