"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."

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"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."

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"I don't want to write, I'd rather draw."

"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."

"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"

"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."

"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."

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"The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it."

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"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."

"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."

"It's very hard to write humor."

"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."

"And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem."

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"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."

"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."