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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."
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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
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"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."
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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James."
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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."
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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either."
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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
Poems
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
Poet
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
Poems
"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."
Hebrew
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
Poetry
"You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels."
Money
"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
Creativity
"When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor."
Reading
"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
Creativity
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