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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"Poets are born, not paid."
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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
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"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
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"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
Poetry
"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
Poems
"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
Reading
"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."
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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
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"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"I feel very connected to poets across the country."
Nation
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
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"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."
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