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"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."
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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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"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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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"I like poems that are complex."
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"Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"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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"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."
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"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
Business
"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
"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."
Poems
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
Hope
"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."
Bible
"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones."
Family
"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology
"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
Talk
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