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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing."
"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."
"I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write."
"If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer."
"I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings."
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."
"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."
"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."
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