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"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."
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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
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"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."
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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."
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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
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"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."
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"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
Society
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
Poetry
"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."
Hope
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
Poems
"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."
Art
"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."
Family
"A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate."
Society
"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."
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