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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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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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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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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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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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"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."
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"One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming."
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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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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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"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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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
Prose
"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."
Poetry
"I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry."
Poetry
"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."
Poems
"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."
Events
"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
Fiction
"Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing."
Parenting
"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
Art
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