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"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
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"Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families."
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"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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"I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them."
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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
Poetry
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
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"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
Humor
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
Poetry
"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
Students
"I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do."
Life
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
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