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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
"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."
"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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"Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires."
"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art."
"I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice."
"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."
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