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"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."
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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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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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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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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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"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."
Poetry
"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
Poems
"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."
Meaning
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
Nature
"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
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
Art
"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
Challenge
"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."
Change
"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
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