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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."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
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"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."
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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
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"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."
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
Success
"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
Power
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Friendship
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
Money
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
Life
"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
Man
"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."
Family
"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
Will
"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."
Art
"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
Family
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