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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady."
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"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."
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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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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 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
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
Poems
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
Poet
"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God
"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
"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
"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."
Time
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
Poetry
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
Nature
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
Theory
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