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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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"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 consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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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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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"Many of my poems are not sexual."
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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 used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
Culture
"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
"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
Poet
"I like poems that are little games."
Games
"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."
Poetry
"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
"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
Poetry
"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
Hearing
"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."
Poetry
"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
Poems
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