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"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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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"Many of my poems are not sexual."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"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
"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
"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God
"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
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
Poet
"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
Poems
"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
Time
"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
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