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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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"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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"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."
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"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."
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"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."
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"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
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"My self-editing process is intense."
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"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."
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"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."
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"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."
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"In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada."
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"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."
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