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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht."
"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
"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."
"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
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