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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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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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"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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"I like poems that are complex."
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"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
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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 used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
Poetry
"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."
Office
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
Poetry
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
Nature
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
Art
"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
Creativity
"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
Reading
"I feel very connected to poets across the country."
Nation
"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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