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"I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it."
"I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years."
"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
"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."
"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."
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
"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."
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
"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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