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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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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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"Many of my poems are not sexual."
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"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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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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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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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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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
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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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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
History
"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
"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
"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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"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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"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
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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."
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