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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

Heinz Guderian, German Soldier

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

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"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

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"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."

Change

"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."

Meaning

"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."

Art

"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

"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

"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."

Hope

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

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"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."

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"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."

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