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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
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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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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."
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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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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 yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
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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
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
Challenge
"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
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
Poet
"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
"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."
Office
"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
Emotional
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
Poetry
"A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate."
Society
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