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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
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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."
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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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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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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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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 have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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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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"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
Work
"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."
Sex
"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home."
Home
"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."
Poetry
"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!"
Time
"When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to."
Being
"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about."
People
"I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop."
Reading
"Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady."
Poems
"My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand."
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