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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"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."
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"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."
"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."
"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."
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