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"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
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"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."
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"Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers."
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"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally " and often far more " worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
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"No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading."
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"One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime."
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"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
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"CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there."
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"I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc."
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"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."
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"I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry."
Poetry
"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."
Poet
"I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers."
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"Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive."
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"Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins."
Poetry
"I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why."
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"High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."
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"Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today."
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