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"With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
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"For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."
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"My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me."
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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
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"Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think."
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"I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."
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"I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets."
Literature
"I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago."
Poetry
"With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said."
Creativity
"I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it."
Reading
"Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of."
Literature
"The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably."
War
"There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small."
Literature
"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."
Sense
"I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world."
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