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"I like poems that are complex."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize 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."
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet."
"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."
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