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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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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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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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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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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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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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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
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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."
Brecht
"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."
Audience
"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
"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."
Character
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
Editing
"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'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
Business
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
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"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
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"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."
Experience
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