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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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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."
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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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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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"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 would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
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"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."
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"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
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"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
Art
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
"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."
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"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time
"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."
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"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
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"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
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