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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."
"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 consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"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."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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"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."
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
"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."
"And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet."
"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."
"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."
"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."
"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
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