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"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
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"Music heals all forms of misery."
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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
Society
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
Poems
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God
"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."
Family
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
Challenge
"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."
Art
"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."
Time
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
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