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"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."
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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition."
Language
"I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself."
Literature
"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
Pleasure
"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."
Help
"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."
Friendship
"Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other."
Poetry
"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."
Poetry
"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years."
Reading
"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
Work
"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system."
Medical
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