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"Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
"Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it."
"And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge when the day was done,/ And the new morn she saw not: but in peace/ Hung over her sweet basil evermore,/ And moisten'd it with tears unto the core."
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"In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively."
"The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate."
"To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity."
"I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem."
"It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing."
"It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)."
"However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others."
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