"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 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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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."

Influence

"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."

History

"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."

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"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

"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."

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"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones."

Family

"A chronicle is very different from history proper."

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"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"

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"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."

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