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"Reading should be a repeat performance."
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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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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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"Read in order to live."
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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
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"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
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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
"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"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
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