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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 write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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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
"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
"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
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
Poetry
"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
"A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate."
Society
"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
Time
"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."
Office
"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
Experience
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