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"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."
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"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
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"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
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"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."
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"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
Art
"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
People
"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
Poetry
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
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"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
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