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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
"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."
"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 like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"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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"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."
"I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader."
"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."
"I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."
"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."
"There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply."
"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."
"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."
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